Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:
- Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
- Do not quote yourself.
- Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.
- No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
Because he didn't cite the quote? 'Cuz the quote is obviously true the vast majority of the time. Maybe he should've put quotes around "answers", but as sane readers we should do so in his stead.
Big questions do sometimes have no answer. The trouble comes because although this isn't always true, some people would like to pretend that it is so that they can ignore all challenges to their pet idea. "Does the Sun revolve around the Earth" is a big question where the answer was there to be found, and yet it was resisted by those who used words like "big questions."