Quotes About Inquiry

According to many philosophers, there is a purely logical reason why science will never be able to explain everything. For in order to explain something, whatever it is, we need to invoke something else. But what explains the second thing?

So part of the job of philosophy of science is to question assumptions that scientists take for granted.

But is it true love, in the rectum? Thats what bothers me sometimes.

There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know.

I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was a sufficient proof that He disapproved of it, or at any rate that he did not set much store by it nor wish to encourage it.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was a sufficient proof that He disapproved of it, or at any rate that He did not set much store by it nor wish to encourage it. He said: "Oh, don't talk about rewards. Look at Milton, who only got 5 pounds for 'Paradise Lost.'" "And a great deal too much," I rejoined promptly. "I would have given him twice as much myself not to have written it at all.

You know, I've always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them and get them to answer a question for once instead of tap dancing around it. And unfortunately I asked the question, but I still got a tap dance. Almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr.

Uma consciência multiplexa sempre faz perguntas quando precisa.

To study in order to know? No. To study in order to know more? No. I think it is to study in order to ask more and more questions.

To live a feminist life is to make everything into something that is questionable. The question of how to live a feminist life is alive as a question as well as being a life question.

I was watching Iggy Pop videos on Youtube and trying to research miniature horse suicides.

One last question, son," he said to Felix. "Who were you expecting to see back there?" "I—no one," Felix stammered. "You asked where he was from," McGivney said. "Where did you think that would be?" "I don't know," Felix said, shifting unhappily from foot to foot.

Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)

I've always hated biology who cares how a cell divides, it just does

Are you okay? he asked leaning slightly towards her. -Don't I look okay? -You look perfect as always. I asked how you felt.

Happy?" Delilah spluttered. "About someone being dead? Are you serious?

I know you saw something. Why else would you guys run? - Mr. Mercer

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

It's not wrong to ask questions. And if the prime minister is afraid of the answer, maybe that means you asked the right question. And maybe it means you need to ask more.»

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.

We always ask where the time went. We never ask where it's coming from.