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Simple Childlike Questions
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Rationalism falls short of answering the many simple childlike questions people like to ask: questions about origins and purposes such as are often contemptuously dismissed as nonquestions or pseudoquestions, although people understand them clearly enough and long to have the answers. These are intellectual pains that rationalists – like bad physicians confronted by ailments they cannot diagnose or cure – are apt to dismiss as "imagination". It is not to rationalism that we look for answers to these simple questions because rationalism chides the endeavour to look at all. — Peter Medawar, Advice to a Young Scientist
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