Quotes About Inquiry

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

To adore, or scorne an image, or protest, May all be bad; doubt wisely, in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleepe, or runne wrong, is: on a huge hill, Cragg'd, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddenes resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.

Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

There is an entire generation who was too young to read 'The Purpose Driven Life' 10 years ago but are now asking the critical question, 'What on earth am I here for?'

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

People ask without wanting to know.

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Second, the intellect abstracts from even the common sensible features of things and considers only their quantitative features. Mathematics is the field of inquiry corresponding to this degree of abstraction.

It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

Who, or why, or which, or what,Is the Akond of Swat?

Who spread its canopy? Or curtains spun?Who in this bowling alley bowled the sun?

The hardest part of research is always to find a question that's big enough that it's worth answering, but little enough that you actually can answer it.

The Sphere would willingly have continued his lessons by indoctrinating me in the conformation of all regular Solids, Cylinders, Cones, Pyramids, Pentahedrons, Hexahedrons, Dodecahedrons, and Spheres: but I ventured to interrupt him. Not that I was wearied of knowledge. On the contrary, I thirsted for yet deeper and fuller draughts than he was offering to me.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Never examine too much anyone without reasons that you would become yourself a question mark.

Search to research whatever subject or object can result in new information, knowledge, and invention.

science, as good as it is with how, isn't equipped to deal with why.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

Now.' He said, 'I have to ask you three question. How old are you? Are you in love? And what in God's name are you doing here?

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child's why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not know the answer, and you often will not, then take the child with you to a source to find the answer. This may be a dictionary or encyclopedia which he is too young to use himself, but he will have had a sense of participation in finding the answer.