Quotes About Inquiry

People of outstanding abilities and strength of character are born at more or less regular intervals, so it's only the matter of their selection that is uneven. Their presence or absence in a particular field of inquiry can perhaps be explained by the perspectives it opens up.

Science is the part of culture that rubs against the world.

no hay cosa que deseéis más que averiguar lo que no podéis averiguar! Pero qué le vamos a hacer.

For a while I hoped that Buddhism Without Beliefs might stimulate more public debate and inquiry among Buddhists about these issues, but this did not happen. Instead, it revealed a fault line in the nascent Western Buddhist community between traditionalists, for whom such doctrines are non-negotiable truths, and liberals, like myself, who tend to see them more as contingent products of historical circumstance.

Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It's what he asks.

Which one of you's the bitch?

If the answer is not the one you want, maybe you're not asking the right question.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions, which is just as well, or it wouldn't be much of a career path, would it?

His other way of getting people to know who he was was by constantly dropping in to their offices and asking about their work.

I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than "What's up?

If you ask enough questions, strange as they seem at the time, you may eventually learn something worthwhile.

You'll often hear the phrase science doesn't know everything. Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.

When you do not understand how something works it is perhaps natural to question and to doubt.

Humanists do not claim to know, we just ask you to be very wary of those who do claim to know. Who told them? What does their knowledge mean? Why should you trust them? Above all, don't take my word for it either. Don't take anyone's word for it. Find out for yourselves.

Ask a stupid person, you'll get a stupid answer.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions.

As a father, I would try to instill the importance of asking questions, always.

why are we here? where do we come from? traditionally,these are questions for philosophy,but philosophy is dead

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Stephen Hawking Quotes Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Stephen Hawking

No, pero me gustaría verlas.

Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.