Carl L. Becker Quote

The questions we ask are "What?" and "How?" What are the facts and how are they related? If sometimes, in a moment of absent-mindedness or idle diversion, we ask the question "Why?" the answer escapes us.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers (1932)

The questions we ask are What? and How? What are the facts and how are they related? If sometimes, in a moment of absent-mindedness or idle...

The questions we ask are What? and How? What are the facts and how are they related? If sometimes, in a moment of absent-mindedness or idle...

The questions we ask are What? and How? What are the facts and how are they related? If sometimes, in a moment of absent-mindedness or idle...

The questions we ask are What? and How? What are the facts and how are they related? If sometimes, in a moment of absent-mindedness or idle...