Quotes About Inquiry

Our curiosity is supposed to have limits, though these have never been defined exactly.

She'd love to go over him with a fine-toothed comb. Rummage around in him. Turn him upside down. Empty him out.

Just do your duty in silence. When in doubt, when flat on your back, you can look at the ceiling. Who knows what you may see, up there? Funeral wreaths and angels, constellations of dust, stellar or otherwise, the puzzles of spiders. There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Is that all there is? they must be thinking. Shouldn't it be less ordinary, more sordid, more epic, more truly harrowing, this flesh wound of your? Tell us more! Couldn't we please crank up the pain?

Being able to read and write did not provide the answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.

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To wonder is to begin to know

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.

Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?