Phases of Gravity by Dan Simmons #1

"“I was wrong. He wasn’t interested in asking questions, only in finding answers.” “What’s the difference?” asked Baedecker. He felt the conversation slipping out of his control, dropping away from him like an aircraft that had reached stall speed. “The difference is that Scott took the line of least resistance,” said Maggie. “Like most people, he found it too uncomfortable to be out in the open, unsheltered by some shadow of authority. So when the questions got too hard, he settled for easy answers.”"

I've met quite a few people are scared of questions. There is something sickly satisfying about pinning them too a wall with a direct question that they can't answer. Or are unwilling to answer.

People are afraid of saying, "I don't know" or admitting that they are wrong.

I guess they are afraid of the questions. I'm not quite sure what all this means.

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