I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

The quotation circulates as part of a broader set of sayings contrasting open-ended inquiry with dogmatic certainty. In the material provided, the specific wording “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned” is not found in reliable contemporaneous sources tied to an identifiable author; it appears later online and is often attached to Richard Feynman without documentation.

It expresses a preference for intellectual openness: unanswered questions are seen as healthier than fixed claims that are treated as immune from scrutiny.