The value of asking questions
Knowledge, now becoming obsolete various times in a lifetime, questioning one’s own assumptions has become crucial.
Children, as soon as they go to school, cease to ask questions. This is frightening.
‘Learning to learn’ is a necessity.
(Symposium Un Siècle de Prix Nobel: Science et Humanisme, held at UNESCO, 8-10 April 1999. Penzias is co-discoverer, together with Wilson, of cosmic microwave background radiation, for which they shared a divided Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.