Quotes About Inquiry

Sandra left at five. I don't know if anyone else was around. I'll have to check." Not the kind of answer we like to hear.

The answers make us wise, but the questions make us human.

D-SAT, police lingo for those who didn't see a thing.

Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.

In claiming to have exhausted the dialectically structured categorial realm, Hegel claims to have completed philosophy. In fact, however, he has completed at best only first philosophy; his system represents at most the highest theoretical knowledge, that which grounds further inquiry. Grounding such inquiry is however quite different from completing it. In complete metaphysics, Hegel provides philosophical anthropology with the point from which it can begin.

the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

It is always the case that when something emerges - which, of course, from the perspective of the former West Germany looks very different - then people say, 'She hasn't told us this yet' and 'She hasn't told us that yet.' I don't know - maybe there are other things I didn't talk about because no one ever asked me.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet.

I have a phrase I say: 'What the damn?' It's my favorite. It just came to me one day.

What I'm doing is trying to get kids to pay attention, to look at the physical world more, and to question everything. I am trying to get kids out of the house and away from screens.

I was brought up as a physicist.

We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay.

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.

My fingers are always in every single pie.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

For me, each day begins and ends with wanting to learn a little more about the secrets of spider silk.

A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not about living by beliefs; it's about wanting to know.