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Quotes About Inquiry

the enemies of intellectual pluralism and free inquiry seem to be ten feet tall. Which is just how they want to seem.
~ Jonathan Rauch
There is nothing like absolute certainty in the whole field of our knowledge," writes Popper.
~ Jonathan Rauch
Impelled by the notions that science is oppression and criticism is violence, the central regulation of debate and inquiry is returning to respectability—this time in a humanitarian disguise.
~ Jonathan Rauch
We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
~ Jonathan Safran
Is thyselves even a word?
~ Emma Harrison
It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.
~ Emma Watson
No, no em crec que Jesús hagi ressuscitat. No em crec que un home hagi tornat d'entre els morts. Només el fet de que la gent s'ho pugui creure, i que jo mateix hi hagi cregut, m'intriga, em fascina, m'inquieta, em trasbalsa - no sé quin verb hi ha encara més. Escric aquest llibre per no pensar-me que jo en sé més, sense creure-m'ho, que els que sí que s'ho creuen i que jo mateix quan m'ho creia. Escric aquest llibre per no donar-me la raó a mi mateix" Pàgina 289
~ Emmanuel Carrère
People come up to me and say, "Emo, do people really come up to you?"
~ Emo Phillips
Many things are lost for want of asking.
~ English proverb
What shall you do?" "I shall continue to explore—the astonishment of living!
~ Enid Bagnold
Y, sobre todo, lo que aún es más difícil: saber quién realmente pudo ser.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
Es posible que haya una respuesta para esa pregunta, pero también que jamás llegue a saber exactamente cuál es.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.
~ Eric Chaisson
He listened to everyone but his heart kept asking why.
~ Eric Gamalinda
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
~ Eric Hoffer
In the Lean Startup model, an experiment is more than just a theoretical inquiry; it is also a first product.
~ Eric Ries
You cannot be sure you really understand any part of any business problem unless you go and see for yourself firsthand. It is unacceptable to take anything for granted or to rely on the reports of others.
~ Eric Ries
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
~ Erich Fromm
The positive thing about the skeptic is that he considers everything possible!
~ Erich von Däniken
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~ Erich von Däniken
firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like? jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any
~ Erin Hunter
Firestar: Okay, Jayfeather, what does mallow look like? Jayfeather: I don't know, do I? I've never seen it.
~ Erin Hunter
Next time," Lionblaze muttered, "I'll check who my parents are before I'm born.
~ Erin Hunter
What about their father?" Squirrelflight hesitated. "I hope you don't mind me asking, but did you love him?
~ Erin Hunter