Quotes About Inquiry

Yeah, well, 'true' isn't a question mark, either," V took a pause.

How do people know that stuff? Why do people know that stuff?" "Science," Peabody said. "You can't live without it.

Every religion should be open to questions and change.

Peabody, am I an ass-kicker? Are you asking to see my scars, or is that a trick question? Shut up, Peabody

Why? Why not?

What's doing?

Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?

What? he said. "Oh, you're thinking about my glock. Yeah, it's a big one.

He had to look.

Destiny was as uncaring and influential as the wind to a flag, carrying the fabric of an individual's existence this way and that, subjecting that which it rocked to its whims without an inquiry as to what the banner may have desired. Or may have prayed for.

What the hell are you doing, Evelyn?

When I see a picture like the 1861 cotton market, I ask myself, "What caused that? Why did that happen?" Then I try to figure it out. From that, you learn an enormous amount. In

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddamit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

Other actors don't get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose it's interesting for everybody other than me.

I've found numerous things - settlements, temples, possible pyramids, forts, roads - the list goes on and on. I'm not as interested in the discoveries as the types of questions they help us formulate.

Some of the best scientists can't explain gravity; Neil Degrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, in the end, do they even know?

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.

The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.

There's no such thing as saying that we'll ever find the ultimate cause of stuff. We can only work to push our understanding one step further.

I get that question almost more than any other. Once people feel a little comfortable, they're always like, 'So, what, uh, uh, what, um, what's your ethnicity?'

I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure or record about the natural world, it leaves more unanswered questions.

Unanswered questions make my head itch.