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Words And Voices Oct 12, 2015

A question is the most powerful force in the world

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A question is the most powerful force in the world, it can take you anywhere.

It can start you on an adventure or spark a connection. See where a question can take you.

What we often miss to realize is, Search is more than just our window onto the world, it is a tool for discovery and connections.

In the future, questions will be more valuable than answers.

Let Curiosity rule

Kids are better when they can explore the world following their curiosities freely building what they care to build, rather than being boxed at school repeating and memorizing facts they don’t care for. We need creative, inquisitive, and persistent children to shape our future. Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, is the secret of creative people.

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Questioning is simply more powerful than answering. Every answer we uncover yields at least two brand new questions. More tools and more answers lead to ever more questions. Thus, even though our knowledge is expanding exponentially, our questions are expanding exponentially faster. In the future, the role of humans, at least for a while, will be to ask questions. To ask a great question will be seen as the mark of an educated person. A great question, ironically, produces not only a good answer, but also more good follow-up questions! A good question is worth a million good answers. If answers indeed become a commodity, questions become the new wealth.

We often see knowledge as a wall of information: individual pieces of knowledge fit together like bricks within the wall, summarizing what is known on a particular topic. This suggests that the way to advance science is to extend this wall of knowledge, strengthening it and extending it beyond the edges of a text book. A hole in the wall is seen as a “knowledge gap,” and we can “flesh out” existing theories by closing such gaps. And indeed, addressing a specific problem may often lead to knowledge that fits squarely within the confines of a wall of knowledge. But this picture gives a false sense of the structure and rigidity of knowledge and its accumulation. The nature of discoveries is that they are unexpected: they may not fit neatly into our existing edifice of knowledge.

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.

The framing of a fundamentally new question lies, beyond what we can expect within our frame of knowledge: while answering a question relies upon logic, coming up with a new question often rests on an illogical leap into the unknown—the hallmark of night science(night science, when our minds wander more freely to generate new ideas and find hidden connections). Why, then, does it not seem this way? Why do questions appear secondary to answers? It may be because a new question is so powerful that it transforms our reality. It is certainly easier to imagine science as a logical, step-wise process. But it is the generation of a new question in the unpredictable and wandering process of night science that paves our way towards a discovery, effectively changing our perception of reality.

If an idea is truly unexpected, then we could not have arrived at it solely through existing questions; instead, we had to navigate through night science, moving from disparate observations to previously unknown questions.

The questions we ask reveal who we are.

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Here’s to a thoughtful, inquisitive, and curious kids. Free the kids and trust the new generation as they were always and will be the ones that changed the world! Happy Children’s Day.

To everyone who sees not what the world is, but what it can be. You’ve Questions? Just ask.

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