Quotes About Inquiry

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny . . ." —Isaac Asimov

Oh, Daddy, do 'splain yourself you are not 'splaining yourself at all.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Ask of the Lesser, lest the Greater shall not wish to Answer, and shall commande more than you.

It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it', than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested.[

Quaestio Mihi Factus Sum" ("I am become a question to myself")

Myron looked a question at Esperanza.

In the ultimate pursuit of knowledge, you can easily become ignorant.

She stopped, dazed. "Who are these two?" she asked Taylor. "We, uh, found them loitering around," Taylor said. "We thought maybe they were the perpetrators." For a second, Mrs. Kent stared at us as though we were pieces in a puzzle she couldn't put together. "These

The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was going on - why they had made it that way.

People wanted to know where I was and what I was doing. Was I still recording? Was I touring? Was I putting a band together? Was I writing songs? Was I even still singing?

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

Why are there so many trees in the jungle?

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.