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According to the First Doctor, questions, indicative of curiosity, were "the beginning of wisdom, of knowledge [and] of understanding". When a species began asking questions, no matter what prompted their inquiry, they arrived at a new frontier for their society. This was an evolution of sorts, the Doctor suggested. Though the nature of the questions themselves varied according to circumstances, "no matter how trivial they might [have] seem[ed] (...) they ha[d] an unsettling tendency to lead to further questions".

This exponential rise in curiosity, beginning in this form across "all species", commonly culminated in an exploration of grand ideas and profound thoughts, which the Doctor favoured calling the "great unknown". (AUDIO: The Invention of Death ^[+]Loading...["The Invention of Death (audio story)"])

The oldest question in the universe was "Doctor who?" (TV: The Wedding of River Song ^[+]Loading...["The Wedding of River Song (TV story)"]) According to the Fifth Doctor, the "second-oldest question" was "Why did the chicken cross the road?" (AUDIO: The Second Oldest Question ^[+]Loading...["The Second Oldest Question (audio story)"])

Questions were prohibited in Light City, except on Jubilee, as "questions [led] to questions" and "questions [led] to answers; answers [led] to knowledge; knowledge [led] to freedom; freedom [led] to dissatisfaction; dissatisfaction [led] to unhappiness." These included self-orientation questions and interrogative prepositions. This social crime was punished by personality revision, or by death. Witnesses to such behaviour were also revised. (AUDIO: The Natural History of Fear ^[+]Loading...["The Natural History of Fear (audio story)"])

It was the third credence of Dalek society to not question the orders of a superior Dalek. (PROSE: The Dalekreed ^[+]Loading...["The Dalekreed (short story)"]) The Dalek Civil War even broke out when the Second Doctor had convinced the Humanised Daleks to start questioning. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)"])

A. Fergus and his crew didn't stop and question the Ninth Doctor when he told them to run, in Southbank, London, in early 2005. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? ^[+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])