Quotes About Inquiry

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

With the Internet you can research anything.

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

I'm big on research.

I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

I love researching, I love interviewing.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.

Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.

When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.

I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?

The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

It was a weird stage of my life, to leave Simon & Garfunkel at the height of our success and become a math teacher. I would talk them through a math problem and ask if anyone had any questions, and they would say, 'What were the Beatles like?'

I've read a dozen different versions of Stanislavski's famous Three Questions, i.e. the queries an actor must ask him- or herself before playing any scene. Here's my version: Who am I? Why am I here? What do I want? The second two are pretty easy. It's the first that's the killer.

the idea is to see how far one can go without supposing supernatural intervention.

The progress of science has been largely a matter of discovering what questions should be asked.

don't mind my asking?