The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.Claude Levi-Strauss
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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
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I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
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