Quotes About Inquiry

I got into the car and began cruising up and down the streets looking for a For Rent sign. It didn't seem to be an unusual thing to do.

Then he spoke. "I just want to find out. I just want to find out for myself." "I don't come cheap." "How much?" "6 bucks an hour." "That doesn't seem like much money." "Does to me. You got a photo of your wife?

It's only been 400 years since they vanished," he told me. "Why does nobody here know anything about them?

We wake out of our dreams and wonder where the blood in our hands came from.

A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.

A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and two or three other little things. http://diggingupthefuture.wordpress.com/

By 2007—just three years after the first report of Morgellons—the CDC received about twelve hundred reports of Morgellons, triggering the inquiry. This was quite remarkable, given that the disease doesn't really exist.

Would you mind finding Eileen and asking her why she's late? It doesn't normally take her this long to terminate an employee.

Really?" Professor Skullface blinked at her in confusion. "Why ever not?

I am asking Julius to explain, I said, why his people are so partial to chickens.

Skepticism is always a good first response.

A man who asks questions does not lose his way; that is what our fathers taught us.

His mind, never content with shallow satisfactions, crept to the brink of knowing. What kind of power was it if it would never be used?

The boy who persists in asking what happened to his father before he has enough strength to avenge him is asking for his father's fate...

Sometimes knowing how to find the answers and what questions to ask are more important than the answers themselves. - Mr. Lemoncello

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I'm always interested in something that's missing.

What came out of 'The LEGO Movie' was the idea of 'Batman's the Dark Knight', so why is he so moody? What's going on? Why is he so banged up? And wouldn't it be fun to get in there and explore that?

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

I'm motivated by curiosity.

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

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native counties...Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

Reading accounts is dull; economic detective work is the easy way to get to the same conclusion.