Quotes About Inquiry

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.

People ask me so many questions.

It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.

In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about.

You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race.

Contrary to popular belief, not a significant amount of research goes into cockroach radiation.

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

When I was young, I didn't know who India's goalkeeper was then.