Quotes About Inquiry

to inquire about the ultimate foundation of everything is to ask a question that perhaps simply does not make sense.

Science is a continual exploration of ways of thinking.

One hundred thousand years ago our species left Africa, compelled perhaps by precisely this curiosity, learning to look ever farther afield. Flying over Africa by night, I wondered if one of these distant ancestors setting out toward the wide-open spaces of the North could have looked up into the sky and imagined a distant descendant flying up there, pondering on the nature of things, and still driven by his very same curiosity.

It was not the applications that motivated them but the natural desire to know.

Because science shows us how to better understand the world, but it also reveals to us just how vast is the extent of what is still not known. The

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

To the very last, the desire to debate, to understand more. To the very last, doubt. This permanent doubt, the deep source of science.

The Art of Asking,

I'm a reference librarian. I have a master's degree in prying.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

Tracy's eyes were deeply sorrowful, and his face expressed a sort of awed wonder, that made many who were present, think that after all there might be something in these occult beliefs. But not so the coroner. He refused to consider the Ouija message with any serious interest, and continued to ply his witnesses with questions both pertinent and wide of the mark. Elijah Stebbins was put through a grilling inquiry

I)t is in curiosity, first, and then in knowledge and reflection that freedom rests.

What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?

We came to see Jace. Is he alright?" "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?

You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle," Albert Einstein wrote, "that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. . . . It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and sense of duty.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soulWhen hot for certainties in this our life!

It is so much nicer to ask, when someone speaks of Barbados, Banska Bystrica or Fiji: 'Oh those little islands.... Are they British?' (They usually are.)

Do chickens have lips?

Man's curiosity drives him to seek the answer to every question. But it's the unanswered questions that are the most exciting.

What was he doing that they had to kill him?" "Asking questions,

we have asked, Where did Aerea take Balerion? We should have been asking, Where did Balerion take Aerea?

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.