Quotes About Questioning

He remembered that all the questions had been directed at him and that he had answered each and every questioning voice. But he did not know what he had answered. —You will forget, was his final memory. There his history ended, without a future, without a name.

So, whazzit dis time, cizzen?

Is this a Kurdish thing?' 'What?' 'Being deliberately contradictory?

When we stop believing in God, we don't suddenly believe in "nothing" … we believe anything.

Job, actually. I read it once a long time ago. It seems more frightening now though. The man who begins to doubt, who shouts out against his God, looking for a response, and who gets one. 'God gave the world to the wicked,' he says at one point, and 'Why should I bother?' at another." "It sounds interesting. But he goes on bothering?" "Yes, that's the incredible thing.

Rebus stopped her and turned to Chilton. 'Why isn't Neil

started to ask some hard questions of myself. All this death, all this pain—was there a higher purpose behind it? Was it God's way of making me feel the destruction I'd caused within someone else's family?

It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?

I asked a child, walking with a candle, 'From where comes that light?' Instantly he blew it out. 'Tell me where it is gone — then I will tell you where it came from.' (Hasan of Basra)

I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope.

Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?" está muy bien. Pero qué hay con "¿De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?".

Qué es lo que canto y qué es lo que mi tambor canta?

Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?' está muy bien. Pero qué hay con '¿De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?

Pregunto acerca del cielo, pero la respuesta es acerca de una soga.

Por qué la gente siempre pregunta si los libros son buenos, sin preguntarse si están en condiciones de beneficiarse de ellos?

Porque nos suceden las cosas? ¿De veras un encuentro casual es lo menos casual del mundo, como dice Cortázar?

Scientists study only those aspects of the universe that it is within their gift to study: what is observable; what is measurable and amenable to statistical analysis; and, indeed, what they can afford to study within the means and time available. Science thus emerges as a giant tautology, a "closed system". It can present us with robust answers only because its practitioners take very great care to tailor the questions.

should we just ignore all of the tidy boxes?

Spanish physicist Beatriz Gato-Rivera has questioned whether we could be immersed in a larger civilization without being aware of it. She notes that "typical civilizations of typical galaxies" would likely be hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years more evolved than our own.

Doubt is my ultimate enemy.

Doubt is not within me. It is all around me.

Doubt kills all potential.

Go and explore worlds, but just know this; you may find something that will question your very existence and all you presently know and believe.

Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?