Quotes About Inquiry

Did you ever read Bulwer's 'Eva, or the Unhappy Marriage'?

What is your agenda, Don Sebastien? What is it you want of me? Of New Amsterdam?

Every question is the answer to someone else's dilemma.

She glanced over her shoulder, pinning the hapless patrolman on a needle-pointed gaze, wondering which of her notories occupied his attention.

The tumult in the heart keeps asking questions And then it stops and undertakes to answer In the same tone of voice.

MR LEWIS Mr Brightman, would you have

Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?

Ich musste gerade an Miss Milliment denken, die oft von einem Spruch aus ihrer Kindheit erzählt hat. 'Sei gut, liebes Mädchen, Klugheit lass die andren lernen.' Das hat sie immer richtig wütend gemacht. Sie hat gesagt, schon mit zehn wollte ihr nicht einleuchten, warum Gutsein ein Ersatz für Klugheit sein sollte. Aber es könnte ein Ersatz fürs Glücklichsein sein, oder?

Xas found himself saying, 'There really isn't any afterlife, is there?' 'Are you asking the Governor of God's prison whether he actually

The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance. Maybe my questions matter.

Adam Smith would compose the founding text of modern economics— Inquiry Concerning the Wealth of Nations—in a language that was, it is all too easy to forget, a foreign tongue to him.

Socrates could do this because he starts with a different question from "What is real?" (although eventually he gets there, too). Socrates was the first also to ask: "What am I?

Aristotle is the true father of science and scientific method, by which we still mean a methodical process of observation, classification, and discovery.

Spreken over iets wat je niet begrijpt is onnozel, ernaar vragen slim. Wat is wetenschap anders dan uitkomen voor je onwetendheid? Je kunt immers alleen iets leren waar je nog geen weet van hebt.

To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.

En cuanto a mí, sólo sé que no sé nada. Y cuando quiero saber busco en los libros, a los que nunca falla la memoria.

Nunca me preguntaste, mi general.

El mundo está empedrado con preguntas sin respuesta.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books--their memory never fails

You do not die to know about death

Why would you need a DNA test? I already know you're a fucking space cadet.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

Never stay on the surface of the problem, explore it. Try to get to the core of the problem, go deeper.