Quotes About Inquiry

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.

Bir ?eyin neden oldu?u konusuna asla kafa yormad?. Nas?l oldu?u, ona yeterdi.

Have you any further questions?" "Bah," grumbled Kalash. "What good are questions, when the answers are all non-sequiturs?" Maloof nodded in agreement. "There is something in what you say.

But knowledge creates a craving for further knowledge. Where is the harm in knowledge?

Why? Why is it has to be this, why not the other way round? Is there a simpler way? What can I do with this? Ask yourself all sorts of questions.

Are you from Tennessee

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Jahno asked with a stymied scholar's anguish.

Where is everything?' Kendall and I chorused.

Perhaps we shouldn't try to answer the questions now - let's just note them down. Maurice always said the power in a question is not in the answer, it's in the way the imagination gets busy when the question is at work.

When you told me about the different subjects--psychology, ethics, philosophy, logic--that's what I most wanted to study. . . It's not so--well--definite, is it? Sometimes it's like a maze, with no answers, only more questions.

When you are tempted to tell someone what to do, instead ask the question, "What do you think you should do now?" Or in an organizational setting, "What do you think we should do?" This is the only quick tip I have, but believe me, it can work magic. Remember, when tempted to tell, ask instead.

The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

Whose little boy are you?

To find out, to find out, you keep saying, as though we were accomplices in a crime. We have not committed any crime.

Does she want you or does she not want you?' 'She went to Spain,' I said, 'to find out'. Giovanni open his eyes wide. He was indignant. 'To Spain. Why not to China? What is she doing, testing all the Spaniards and comparing them with you?

The paradox of education is precisely this—that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. --"The Negro Child—His Self-Image," in Saturday Review (New York, 21 Dec. 1963; repr. in The Price of the Ticket as "A Talk to Teachers," 1985)     Europe

There is nothing I find more exciting than picking a question that I don't know the answer to and embarking on a quest for answers.

That's what makes death so hard—unsatisfied curiosity. —BERYL MARKHAM, West with the Night1

What about bushido? the ghosts of his ancestors had always asked him. What about bushido? he had always asked them back. They had never answered.

Nullius in verba was the Royal Society's motto. Don't take anyone's word for it.

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know but as the essence of knowing. The alternative to uncertainty is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.