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Quotes About Inquiry

Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
~ Garth Nix
Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
~ Stephen Hawking
Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, 'Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?' The Great Creator answered, 'You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.'
~ George Washington Carver
We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
~ Wendell Pierce
When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.
~ Simon McBurney
It's funny, I used to ask guys who were in shape all the time, like Triple H, 'What do you do?' It was hard to get information out of them, and I understand why now. When you take the time and do the research, it's more about what suits you, not what suits everybody.
~ Big Show
Nothing would make me happier if people got curious enough to actually go online to and start looking and researching the Apollo 1 fire... That would be amazing to me if people would actually go through the trouble to figure that stuff out.
~ Stephanie Savage
I was allowed to believe things that weren't true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them.
~ Marjorie Taylor Greene
It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.
~ Louis Freeh
I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
~ Ada Yonath
Trump forces us to ask questions we didn't used to ask.
~ Brian Stelter
Let's make Donald Trump explain his hair.
~ Ted Deutch
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.
~ Edward Jenner
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
~ Peter Abelard
The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.
~ Allan Bloom
I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.
~ Frank Stella
I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.
~ Sandra Bullock
People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.
~ Edwidge Danticat
It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.
~ Michael Haneke
Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.
~ Aristotle
If people really want to find you, they find you.
~ Bill Murray
With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.
~ Colin Greenwood