Quotes About Inquiry

Questioning what we believe and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can benefit from the informed opinions of others.

Sometimes scientific progress leaves us more puzzled than we were before.

Non si lascia ai margini del proprio cammino un mistero, per quanto insignificante.

Una collina di cui non si conosce l'altitudine è un'offesa per la ragione e mi inquieta. Senza esaminare costantemente la propria posizione, nessun uomo può progredire. Non si lascia ai margini del proprio cammino un mistero, per quanto insignificante.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.

La ciencia nos ofrece una nueva visión del mundo que ha liberado el espíritu humano, o al menos tiene el potencial de hacerlo. Lo más importante de la ciencia es la ciencia misma, es decir, la forma de proceder que nos ha acercado a un profundo entendimiento de cómo es el mundo.

What's wrong with my gun?" "It's rather small, Mr. Bond.

He used to say, 'Never be satisfied with what you know, only with what more you can find out.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

Who the *&^$* is "Paolo"?

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.

I don't know if she has a boyfriend. You should ask her.' 'If I ask her, she'll say yes. It's better not to know. That way you're always in with a chance. Even if they're with their husbands, and you've just watched them take their vows, never ask them if they're married. Totally ruins your chances.

It appears that the reporter has passed along some words without inquiring what they mean, and you are expected to read them just as uncritically for the happy illusion they give you of having learned something. It is all too reminiscent of an old definition of the lecture method of classroom instruction: a process by which the contents of the textbook of the instructor are transferred to the notebook of the student without passing through the heads of either party.

Science explains everything. But if it doesn't it hasn't yet.

Intelligence shows itself not so much in always having the right answers but in being able to ask the right questions.

David A. Adler

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.

you ask too many questions," snapped Cletus. I kept my gaze on Roman. "that's because I get too few answers.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Minho clucked his tongue. "Who cares about that? What's this freakin' stuff about her being the Betrayer?" "And what's 'Group A, Subject A1' mean?" This was Newt, who handed over the fire extinguisher to Thomas. "Anyway, your turn to break a buggin' door handle.

He knew he had a lot to learn—that was why he was asking questions.

What did we do differently?" "I don't know. It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.