# Ask the Right Questions > To as the right question is harder than to answer it. > -George Cantor It is the generation of a new question in the unpredictable and wandering process of night science that paves our way towards a discovery, effectively changing our perception of reality. As was the case with Albert Einstein: > Einstein did not have a top three list of open questions to start with. What he did have were topics in the form of puzzling observations, puzzling primarily to himself. After a bout of Night Science Einstein had finally arrived at the very question that was the key to his conundrum: was there a way to change our concept of time that would make things fit? Einstein was not given the question. He discovered it. Hidden behind the storylines of our papers, we may have spent long nights wandering around for questions. But once we stumbled upon the right one, it was transformative, often almost completely erasing our prior goals. We often see knowledge as a wall of information: individual pieces of knowledge fit together like bricks within the wall, summarizing what is known on a particular topic. This metaphor suggests that the way to advance science is to extend this wall of knowledge. While answering a question relies upon logic, coming up with a new question often rests on an illogical leap into the unknown—the hallmark of night science. --- Date: 20240426 Links to: [Jootsing](Jootsing.md) Tags: References: * [How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?](https://www.freaktakes.com/p/how-did-places-like-bell-labs-know) * [Night Science](https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/night-science) (see PDF in icloud) * [3b1b video, quote at the start](https://youtu.be/uQhTuRlWMxw?t=10)