Quotes About Probing

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Interviewers, even the ones that support the person they're interviewing, have an obligation to probe further and push back when a candidate says something dangerous.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

I don't know that I believe that God is in control of everything that happens. As a Jew, I believe that we have free will and we are responsible for our actions. But I guess it's something I'm still probing.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

I'm bad at fishing for information.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

asked, his voice tight.

Enquiring minds want to know.

He said that you were the ultimate artist at probing the soul, your own soul first.

The sister played so beautifully. Her face was tilted to one side and she followed the notes with soulful and probing eyes. Gregor advanced a little, keeping his eyes low so that they might possibly meet hers. Was he a beast if music could move him so?

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." Eugene

I experienced so intense a moment of despair, frustration and rebelliousness that irony, my most trusted weapon of defense, became instead another scalpel for probing my own wounds.

A young reporter for the Post named Tom Wolfe followed up after my talk with an interview. The Post ran his story, "You Can So Beat the Gambling House at Blackjack, Math Expert Insists." He was curious rather than skeptical, sympathetic but probing. Wolfe later became one of America's most famous authors.

During my years at the synchrotron laboratory, I had become interested in the theory of quantum electrodynamics and had decided that what I would most like to do after completing my dissertation work was to probe the short-distance behavior of the electromagnetic interaction.

But why you would want to catch flies, hah? Answer me that, vinegar girl.

The mind demands pattern and form, which build up slowly and require repeated passes, with each pass going deeper and probing further.

You know, I've always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them and get them to answer a question for once instead of tap dancing around it. And unfortunately I asked the question, but I still got a tap dance. Almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr.

Why, that means you're just a … busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.'