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Scientists Create More Questions

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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

Gordon W. Allport, Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality (The Terry Lectures Series) (1960-09-10)

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Intellectual maturity "is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems."

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