Quotes About Inquiry

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.

If you want people to take action,you must refrain from giving them the answers.

Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?

When it comes to investigating a president, the special counsel regulations I had the privilege of drafting in 1998-99 say that such inquiries have one ultimate destination: Congress.

I don't know much about history.

There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?

When you check into a hotel, they don't need to know your name and address; they just need to know that the bill will be paid. People should ask questions.

I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.

I like the cut of his jib and the glint in his eye, the arrow of his song and the beg of his question.

How are you, it wasn't a courtesy, it was an existential question.

I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts.

mosquitoing around me, peppering me with pointless questions

Amy, since when do you have a boyfriend?

What's a starbuck?

It is infinitely harder to ask questions in such a way that the audience is led not to the answers (the province of the demagogue) but to new perceptions.

What will we care for the why and the wherefore?

face a little smudged with tears. She asked, 'Was it

just your bodies and there is no such thing as the soul, or if you do believe that the soul exists then you often do so blindly, according to religious dogmas rather than personal inquiry. You

There are those who fashion history and those who contemplate it; there are those who make things happen and those who ask why.

When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?

Asking questions gives you significant power.

I'll go see what's in the building," she said. "Maybe it's somebody like me, somebody smarter who knows about electricity. Tomorrow morning I'll go see.

As the late John Keel said, "To hell with the answer. What is the question?"     Alien

elbowed Danny. "You think Shields is the father of that baby?