Quotes About Inquiry

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did.

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

Kids always ask the most obvious and the most difficult questions.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

What intrigues basic scientists like me is that anytime we do a series of experiments, there are going to be three or four new questions that come up when you think you've answered one.

I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

I didn't know what kinds of questions to ask in mathematics. In physics, I could see there were things that were known and things that weren't.

The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions.

I think the best directors aren't afraid to ask questions.

I think the American people have a lot of questions about the governance of this country.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.

I have a million questions about my granddad and no one to talk to.

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

I think you go through a stage where you're constantly asking questions because you're learning every day, and when it's like that you need to bring results with it.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.