Quotes About Inquiry

let suspicion

What makes you ask that?" (...) "Why does anyone ask a question? Because I want to know the answer.

To really understand nature, we have to do more than glance, and we have to think beyond our knee-jerk reaction that insists since we make things with intent, nature must also be made with intent. If we want to understand better than a child, we have to look harder, and think deeper.

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

YaÅŸam?m?n anlam?, yaÅŸam?n bana yönelttiÄŸi sorudad?r ya da tam tersi, ben kendim dünyaya yöneltilen bir soruyum ve yan?t?m? ona söylemezsem onun verdiÄŸi yan?ta baÄŸl? kalmak zorunda kal?r?m.

Curiosity is, after all, the way we answer when intuition whispers, "There's something there.

May answers come to me by easeful attraction rather than stressful pursuit, and may all beings benefit from these inquiries.

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she know?

Really? Was that how you quit me?

Mia?' he asks.

failure results in reflection and genuine inquiry.

Socratic questioning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for themselves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.

Do you doubt the Ten, my lord?

We are the Library," Coppelia pointed out. "What we don't know, we research.

In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

In der Mathematik ist die Kunst Fragen zu stellen wertvoller als Probleme zu lösen.

Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.

Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

Each question was precisely the best one based on the information he had uncovered so far. His logic was faultless—he never asked a question that was irrelevant or erroneous. His questions came in rapid-fire order, revealing a mind that was lightning-fast and error-free.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

Why? Is the sight of my legs disturbing you, Derek?

What in the bloody hell are you?" "Andrea Nash," I said. "This is my associate, Robin of Loxley.

What is it? Did Timmy fall down a well?" "Quack!