Quotes About Inquiry

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

It is our job to ask the questions that make everybody uncomfortable.

I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.

My undergraduate, I double-majored in biology and chemistry. Biology was kind of my love.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be equally interested in fundamental science.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest repute, for and against the Trinity, original sin, and the most disputed doctrines, but I was not yet of an understanding sufficiently ripe for impartial decision, and all my inquiries terminated in Calvinism.

Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.

Science is a quest for understanding.

Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer always is, 'The unexpected,' because we're just looking at the tip of the iceberg; we've just scratched the surface.

I'm fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships?

Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it's just thoughtful inquiry.

Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

Wonder is an open heaven to wisdom.

To wonder is to be wise.

There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.

I only know everything if you ask the right questions.

The questions you don't ask are just as important as you do. The questions you ask show what you understand, and ones you don't show what you know.

Do not accept any information without a deep research on the origin.