Quotes About Inquiry

The New "Why" Question Generally, you don't want to begin conversations with "Why" questions because, as mentioned before, they have a tendency to put people on the defense. It

Encourage the volunteering of more information. "So what happened next?" or "Tell me more about that" would be proper to extend a conversation.

the whole point of science, the whole thrust of the Enlightenment, is the rejection of arguments from authority.

Many humans live their entire lives without questioning the 'truths' they've been told.

Sometime it's more difficult to know the question than to find an answer.

Of the many attributes that seem to mark America's founders as residents of a foreign time and place, probably none is more astonishing today than their unapologetic confidence in the power of books—and in particular the books of the philosophers. At

What the hell is wrong with you? he asked. It was a good question.

What tinfoil? he asked.

Never question the girl who works in the library -Eric

Stevie had absolutely no idea what he meant by "have a butcher's" and was not going to ask.

There were three questions that no one answered or asked: "What constituted proof?" "What constituted need?" "Essential—to whom?

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?

He felt as if there was something—deep in his brain, behind everything he thought and everything he was—which he did not know, but she knew, and he wished he did, and wondered whether he could ever know it, and should he, if he could, and why he wished it.

Why should you care about the others?" "Because I like to understand things, and there's something about people that I can't understand.

Dr. Stadler once said that the first word of 'Free, scientific inquiry' was redundant. He seems to have forgotten it. Well, I'll just say that 'Governmental scientific inquiry' is a contradiction in terms.

He stood looking at her as if it took all of his effort to keep his eyes directed at her face, to keep seeing her, to endure the sight. "What do you want?" he asked.

the first word of 'Free, scientific inquiry' was redundant. He seems to have forgotten it. Well, I'll just say that 'Governmental scientific inquiry' is a contradiction in terms.

But why?" "You goddamn fool, do you think I consider their question debatable?

Questions give us no rest.

Free scientific inquiry? The first adjective is redundant.

To the public, they were either naive jihadi brides or calculating monsters. But most of the women in this book were neither passive nor predatory, and trying to pin down their degree of agency seemed to be only one line of inquiry, and certainly not the most revealing. Some collaborated or acted knowingly; some were so young that, despite the outward appearance of deliberate choice, they were not mature enough to exercise anything approaching adult judgement.

Joe looked at the name on Axe's BlackBerry and then turned to me. "Who the hell is Sarah Palin?

the witch was an empiricist: she relied on her senses rather than on faith or doctrine, she believed in trial and error, cause and effect. Her attitude was not religiously passive, but actively inquiring. She trusted her ability to find ways to deal with disease, pregnancy, and childbirth—whether through medications or charms.

Why revere the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?