Quotes About Inquiry

What did you do. Hopkins, after you had made certain that you had made certain of nothing?

Are you well up in your Jean Paul?

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

How can they whip cheese?

The job is to ask questions — it always was — and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

What does the absolute mean? Something that is, and of which (under pain of punishment) we dare not ask further whence and why it is. A precious rarity for professors of philosophy!

Nale?y pyta? wiele i d?ugo (...), aby ukry? to, na co ??dasz potwierdzenia.

Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered?

Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?

Questions signified a vulgar display of ignorance.

There's so much data, but no one really wants to know anything, don't you think?

For all her stunning looks, she was a brutal interrogator who often exceeded her brief because she was exorcizing demons of her own.

I still have no idea what I did differently that day.

But the truth of the matter is that it tends to raise as many questions as it answers.

So what was the actual basis for charging Noe?

I asked him if I could have a look around.

So it struck me as odd to find

Have I sufficiently confused you? Good. Stay humble.

Who is John Galt?

Do you want me to remind you that you once swore to make my happiness aim of your life? And that you cant say in all honesty whether i am happy or unhappy, because you haven't even inquired whether i exist?

the Council of Schools has said that there are no mysteries.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. —VOLTAIRE

he was at home whenever he could quench his thirst for knowledge;...