Quotes About Questioning

The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that knowledge with a deeper understanding if something better comes along. In other walks of life, this attitude might be regarded as fickle. But not in science. Scientific progress depends on scientists' unwavering commitment to the qualities of honesty and doubt.

Careful observation and a questioning attitude to findings are central to the scientific method of investigation, which underpins physics and all the sciences.

is hard to realize that a complete nothing, a zero like that, could kill a man like President Kennedy." Ruby asked how

The responses were the same, sometimes almost word for word with what he had said earlier. As it continued, officers appeared on the far side of the glass partition and Fritz stopped, sometimes turning to the federal men—"You

Your business is never apparent. It requires in-depth questioning that gives you a process that provides constant refocusing of what you

Quit looking for an answer, Jim. There fuckin' ain't one. Fuck yeah, I'm still looking for God's telephone number.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

Everyday I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.

Is science a "candle in the dark"?… Or is it simply whistling in the dark?

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity

The first step of wisdom is to question everything.

Dunque, non so se ho venduto? Dico a vossignoria: la mia paura è questa. Non vendono tutti? Dico a vossignoria: il diavolo non esiste, non c'è, e a lui io ho venduto l'anima... La mia paura è questa. A chi l'ho venduta? La mia paura è questa, signor mio: allora, l'anima, uno se la vende, da solo, senza nessun compratore...

Será que chove, Primo? — Capaz. — Ind'hoje? Será? — 'Manhã. — Chuva brava, de panca? — Às vez… — Da banda de riba? — De trás.

If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?

Are you Jesus? people ask us silently every day. And the answer liturgical spirituality forms in us if we live it with constancy, with regularity, with fidelity, is surely, yes.

warriors looked at one another, curious. One

Your bed was empty today When I looked for you Why?

What do you want?" Debbie whispered. And a voice whispered back, "Where are my eyes?" Debbie let out a yelp and began shouting, "How should we know? We didn't take your eyes! What do you think you're doing anyway, going around scaring people? You rotten, mean, whatever-you-are!

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

The way you ask a question chooses its answer.

En la posada del fracaso, donde no hay consuelo ni ascensor, el desamparo y la humedad comparten colchón y cuando, por la calle, pasa la vida, como un huracán, el hombre del traje gris saca un sucio calendario del bolsillo y grita ¿Quién me ha robado el mes de abril?

Adri held her arms around herself, shivering. "Do you think I can change?" she finally asked. Lily looked at her, curious and thoughtful. "Well," she replied, "are you dead?

Why?' she hissed. Why indeed? 'I give you orders,' he barked, 'not fucking reasons!

Why-why-why!... Ask it of everything your mind touches, and let you mind touch everything!