"Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask." "But you're the Answerers!" "You don't see yet, Genry, why we per… - Ursula K. Le Guin

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

"You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Fortelling?"
"No..."
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question."

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring?

Hughes, who had entered the space program from astrophysics, came with a very good record, in fact a brilliant one. This troubled many of his military superiors, to whom high intelligence was a code word for instability and insubordination.