Verb
(cricket, informal) To make an appeal to the umpire against the batsman.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to ask a given question.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgOur model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question. Ursula K. Le Guin
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?' Erwin Chargaff
The questions we ask are "What?" and "How?" What are the facts and how are they related? If sometimes, in a moment of absent-mindedness or idle diversion, we ask the question "Why?" Carl L. Becker
But is diversity our strength? The less we have in common, the stronger we are? Is that true of families? Is it true in neighborhoods or businesses? Of course not. Then why is it true of America? Nobody knows. Nobody's even allowed to ask the question. Tucker Carlson
When we patch things up, They say a job well done. But when we ask the question why Where did the rips come from?, They say we are subversive, And extreme, of course. We are just trying to track a problem to its source. Ani DiFranco
How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer. C.K. Prahalad