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Richard Dawkins

“The mere fact that it is possible to frame a question does not make it legitimate or sensible to do so. There are many things about which you can ask, "What is its tempera- ture?" or "What color is it?" but you may not ask the tempera- ture question or the color question of, say, jealousy or prayer. Similarly, you are right to ask the "Why" question of a bicy- cle's mudguards or the Kariba Dam, but at the very least you have no right to assume that the "Why" question deserves an answer when posed about a boulder, a misfortune, Mt. Everest or the universe. Questions can be simply inappropriate, how- ever heartfelt their framing.”

Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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