Quotes About Questioning

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

Science probes; it does not prove.

Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

Science is always inquiring.

To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.