Quotes About Inquiry

Can you imagine, just talking and chatting with Tony Leung? I got to ask all my fan girl questions.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

Science is a highly technical and intellectual endeavor. Any theory or fact or discovery has an ocean of depth to it. You can always go deeper with science, and you can always ask a new and interesting question. That's what makes a topic nerdy: depth.

Going to school is not really education. It's really who's in front of the classrooms and who's endearing themselves to the kids and who's making the kids want to learn and who's inspiring them to be curious about any topic in the world.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

The notion that you have to hold something in your head seems to have been forgotten. It is an absurdity that children learn to investigate topics without having dates in their heads, or the facts.

What in the world is going on with that?

Intellectual fascination crosses many boundaries.

Long ago, in conversation with one of the Shonto, Hakata observed that most people preferred an ill considered answer to an intelligent question. I have come to Seh to seek truths, and in this endeavor I am prepared to ask difficult questions and then to live without immediate answers if that is what is required.

I wonder why that is. I wonder why anything is.

What is philosophy? Albrecht Wellmer, I say, or John McDowell. This is how I know what philosophy is.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

You can divide the world into the two kinds of people: those who ask, and those who answer. Those who pose questions, and those who frown in irritation in response.

Who's James Bond?" Zabulon inquired.

If I were seriously interested in something important to me, I wouldn't just click on the first search result, read it and take it as God's word.

je me demande... si cette armure n'est pas So. Alors je voudrais le demander à la girafe la prochaine fois.

In a classical joke a child stays behind after school to ask a personal question. "Teacher, what did I learn today? " The surprised teacher asks, "Why do you ask that?" and the child replies, "Daddy always asks me and I never know what to say".

It is important to approach Maths only in a spirit of curiosity and discovery...

It's not about putting forth the questions, it's about accepting the answers we ask for.

How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?" "You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth

It's as if they take all our questions and offer them straight back: Who are you? Why are you here? What do you want?

Curiosity could be almost as powerful as desire.

To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.

If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, "This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?" And eventually he dies of thirst.