Quotes About Inquiry

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.

ALWAYS FULL OF QUESTIONS...How many times must I tell you, better to listen than to talk. But you're always talking...asking useless things...whatever for?" "Because I want to know.

I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.

When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

Black Sabbath questioned a lot of things.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Science is about questioning things.

I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.