Quotes About Inquiry

If we want to make the world add up, we need to ask questions -- open-minded, genuine questions. And once we start asking them, we may find it is delightfully difficult to stop.

knowledge is better than wonder

Duffy nodded civilly, reflecting, though, that the surest way to get Aurelianus to talk about chickens was to ask him about cheese.

Skepticism is a natural part of science

You have to know the things you don't know. You have to figure out what the questions are before you can start looking for answers.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

Wet streets don't cause rain, do they?

How do you know that?" "Maybe I'm a fucking detective

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?

That's it then, is it? What was it all about? When did it begin?

GUIL (hevesen megragadja) MIT GONDOLSZ, KI VAGY TE? ROS Szónoki kérdés. Gém, meccs!

I thought of muses as inventions to protect one's insight, to avoid questions like Where do your ideas come from? Or to escape inquiry into the fuzzy area between autobiography and fiction.

I did not know why I destroyed those dolls. But I did know that nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas

There is really nothing more to say—except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

What are you? Some kinda mermaid?" one man had shouted, and reached hurriedly for his socks.

Everybody asks the same questions -- but they don't know that they ask the same questions.

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

As I said to that policeman, I don't know. I've

there's a certain wisdom in being skeptical. But we need to hold our skepticism lightly, with a willingness to explore before dismissing outright

Questioning is simply more powerful than answering.

Yet the paradox of science is that every answer breeds at least two new questions. More tools, more answers, ever more questions.

Question makers will be seen, properly, as the engines that generate the new fields, new industries, new brands, new possibilities, new continents that our restless species can explore. Questioning is simply more powerful than answering.

Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.