Quotes About Inquiry

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

The more we know about the history of the universe, the more we know about ourselves and the questions we are driven to ask.

Science goes from question to question big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Ignorance never settles a question.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know; the second, is to find out who will tell you.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

If I had read as much as other men, I should have known no more than they.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

Curiosity is a lust of the mind.

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'

But it does move.

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?