Quotes About Inquiry

Lo que sabía Tool de los detalles había suscitado en Toc muchas preguntas pero ninguna duda.

Ask not the hero about heroism Forgive the unwillingness To lock gazes while you search For what cannot be explained

The most important task of teaching is to teach what it means to know.

What did you—" He swallowed. His voice was raspy. "What did you do to him?" "Sightseeing. Your turn." He shivered. "No, that's all right.

Did they scalp you?

Now, don't take this the wrong way, but shouldn't you be dead?

What would Apollonius of Tyana do?"—always his test for making a difficult decision—

El gran éxito de Newton consistió en explicar los movimientos de los planetas, no simplemente en describirlos. Newton no explicó la gravitación, y sabia que no lo había hecho, pero es lo que ocurre siempre con las explicaciones, que siempre queda algo para una futura explicación.

Science and technology benefit each other, but at its most fundamental level science is not undertaken for any practical reason.

There is an important feature of modern science that is almost completely missing in all the thinkers I have mentioned, from Thales to Plato: none of them attempted to verify or even (aside perhaps from Zeno) seriously to justify their speculations. In reading their writings, one continually wants to ask, "How do you know?

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year.

When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?

She appeared to be confused as if Finnigin's questions had thrown her into a state where she herself had begun to ask questions.

And who are you exactly? Might I ask what you want?" "We want you," said the man. "And who am I?

Othman came to fill the dark space in the doorway, his eyes lit by blue sparks that seemed to shine from somewhere deep within him, perhaps through centuries of time.

You cannot speak, so I must ask myself a question that I know is in your heart.

Practical knowledge is always surrounded by questions while theoretical knowledge always surrounded by success !!!

I've read too many books to believe what I am told.

Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn't care why you were asking.

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

We're going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system.