Quotes About Inquiry

Ironically, the best questions are not questions that lead to answers, because answers are on their way to becoming cheap and plentiful. A good question is worth a million good answers. A

Life is running backwards. What did I do wrong?

Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

What species is he?" "British

The Child's eyes flick back and forth between Kat and me. 'You are the Ones?' he asks skeptically. Kat catches my eye. 'OMG, does this mean I get to be a One, too?' she teases me.

How much are you enjoying yourself, tiger moth?

Asking yourself a question, that's how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else. —REMCO CAMPERT

The library. Books held the answer to every question.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

What did they live on," said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. "They lived on treacle," said the Dormouse, after thinking a moment or two. "They couldn't have done that, you know," Alice gently remarked. "They'd have been ill." "So they were," said the Dormouse, "very ill." Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Ahora bien, ¿qué es, oh Sócrates, la vida?, preguntaría yo.

The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt.

The most credible answers are the ones given by science, because science IS the search for the most credible answers available, not for answers pretending to certainty.

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is our nature to be so.

Scientific answers are not definitive: they are, almost by definition, the best ones that we have at any given time. Consider

Wonder is the source of our desire for knowledge,1 and the discovery that time is not what we thought it was opens up a thousand questions.

Aristotle is the first we are aware of to have asked himself the question "What is time?," and he came to the following conclusion: time is the measurement of change.

Abstract thought can anticipate by centuries hypotheses that find a use—or confirmation—in scientific inquiry.

Lo que nos hace avanzar es la duda y no la certeza.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is in our nature to be so. One