Quotes About Inquiry

happened to her? What had happened to them? Where were

Why would you even want those nasty things on your head?" Misty asked. "You do realize where that's been, right? Covering up the Toad's nether regions?

You're sure?" Newt prodded,

Where am I?" Thomas asked, surprised

A place we've never looked before?" Alby asked. "What do you think we've been doing for two years

Save all your questions till the end, children.

What are those?" he whispered as loudly as he dared,

What's the detector?" Thomas asked. "It detects stuff," Brenda replied curtly. Thomas wrinkled his face at her.

close his eyes again. "What're you

Mark had so many questions, he couldn't get them out fast enough.

And how did we get here?" Bryson added. "What happened to that town we were in? Where are we? And while we're at it, where can I get a burger?

Hollerith regarded engineers as backroom boys who worked best when they were left alone. Watson, on the other hand, was quick to chase engineers out of the laboratory and into customers' offices to find out precisely what functions and features customers needed from their machines.

In the scientific world, "fear" is usually called "skepticism.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

What color is the wind? Blew.

We hang here, inquisitive carbon-based life forms, knowing that every atom of carbon now in our bodies was once in the interior of a star.

and there is no one to whom you can look for an explanation of why they are doing it, no one to whom you can go up and take him by the lapels and shake him and say What the fuck are you doing? The entire thing had been done by dead men. Who done it? Noman done it.

Physics is not about having memorized all the answers, but rather about asking the right questions. For when the right question is posed of a phenomenon, either the answer becomes clear or at least a path to further and more fruitful questioning is revealed.

WHO ARE YOU?" This is the first question your constituents want you to answer for them. Your leadership journey begins when you set out to find the answer and are able to express it.

Explanations settle issues, showing that matters must end as they have. Narratives raise issues, showing that matters do not end as they must but as they do. Explanation sets the need for further inquiry aside; narrative invites us to rethink what we thought we knew. If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history.

Explanation sets the need for further inquiry aside; narrative invites us to rethink what we thought we knew.

We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the foot-print. And Lo! It is our own.

You're vaccinated against rabies, right?" he asked.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.