Quotes About Inquiry

Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.

As science integrates the in-depth knowledge of the physical world accumulated over the past three centuries, it will be channeled into a new and exciting line of inquiry that acknowledges the expanded reality of consciousness as a creative force in the universe and the spiritual creative power embodied in our own minds.

There are ever further questions for intelligence pushing up towards a fuller understanding and ever further doubts urging us to a fuller truth.

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

I am not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

asking the right questions.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

The High School of our species, curiosity, requires the unusual for its awakening. Just as it took prodigies, eclipses, or comets, to start our distant ancestors inquiring into the structure of the universe, so in our time crises have been needed for the birth of an economic science, and thirty millions of unemployed for it to become widespread.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

If, therefore, Atheism is true, all controversy about miracles is useless. They are simply impossible, and to inquire whether an impossible event has happened is absurd.

Belief in hell stifles all inquiry into truth by setting a premium on one form of belief, and by forbidding another under frightful penalties.

Meander within the space of insufficient evidence.

What's gotten into him?" "Five-Thirty," I called back. "I didn't ask the time," she called. "Get that dog out of there, and fill that hole in.

mother to the stairs. "Can I ask you something?

If you already know all the answers, you can't ask questions.

while still another promised to find out if it was true that she ate raw skinned squirrels for breakfast and slept outside in a tepee.

Bill Brittain

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

I: "Such a lovely word—why triboluminescence?" O: "I like lightbulbs." This didn't seem to answer my question but I liked it anyway.

why are you reading

When, in Paradise Lost, Adam asks about the movements of the heavens, Raphael refuses to answer. "Let it speak," he says, "the Maker's high magnificence, who built / so spacious, and his line stretcht out so far; / That man may know he dwells not in his own; / An edifice too large for him to fill, / Lodg'd in a small partition, and the rest / Ordain'd for uses to his Lord best known.