Quotes About Inquiry

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'

One funny thing I realized is how many people had no idea that I was gay because they don't bother to look it up or ask.

There is no limit to what astrophysicists can do. We can be very curious.

If I didn't get a date, he'd stand off on one side with me all night long, firing questions like some deranged prosecutor.

Why are things beautiful? I don´t know. That´s a good question. Isn´t it pleasing when you ask a question of a person, a teacher, or a speaker, and he or she says, That´s a good question? Don´t you feel good when that happens?

So now what? What happens when words fail us?

All these observations fascinate us, and fill us with an intense desire to know more about the nature of these phenomena.

Podría aprender más? ¿Cuánto era posible aprender? ''¿Cómo sera —se preguntó— aprender todo lo que puede enseñarse?

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are not.

If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong.

Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry.

Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much, yaknow?

The powerful are self-immunized from even inquiry, let alone punishment for their crimes.

There are any number of questions that might lead one to undertake a study of language. Personally, I am primarily intrigued by the possibility of learning something, from the study of language, that will bring to light inherent properties of the human mind.

I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Los maestros tienen la obligación de investigar y difundir la verdad sobre los temas más significativos, sobre los temas que importan.

I think, very plausibly, that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively, independently, without external controls.

In brief, if we are biological organisms, not angels, much of what we seek to understand might lie beyond our cognitive limits – maybe a true understanding of anything, as Galileo concluded, and Newton in a certain way demonstrated. That cognitive reach has limits is not only a truism but also a fortunate one; if there were no limits to human intelligence, it would lack internal structure and would therefore have no scope: we could achieve nothing by inquiry.

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

You love tests? Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

You have to look to find. You have to ask to have the answers. You have to awaken to become.

Was it genes or magick? she wondered. But then, for some, one was the same as the other

I'm good at figuring out how things work, but I don't know how this happened.