Quotes About Inquiry

I think that it's important to question things and not just accept everything right away.

I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

I don't think there are any rude questions.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

When you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary.

I like doing scholarship for its own sake.

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

I like some science in my science fiction.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

I just wanted to be a scientist.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Kids are natural scientists.

Scientists are always skeptics.

Search is an unsolved problem.

We are all going to be using search many, many times a day, every day of our lives, forever.

If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are.

What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.

Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.

My view is the questions in Parliament should be the questions that people out there want asked.

People want to know about what's going on with what's in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It's a lot of curiosity out there.

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We don't know who discovered water, but we're certain it wasn't a fish. —John Culkin