Quotes About Inquiry

You were contemplating the mountain, Mr. Conway? Came the inquiry. Yes, it's a fine sight. It has a name, I suppose? It is called Karakal I don't think I've ever heard of it. Is is very high? Over twenty-eight thousand feet. Indeed? I didn't realize there would be anything on that scale outside the Himalayas. Has it been properly surveyed? Whose are the measurements? Whose would you expect, my dear sir? Is there anything incompatible between monasticism and trigonometry?

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

And whowasit youwasit propped the pot in the yard and whatinthe nameofsen lukeareyou rubbinthe sideofthe flureofthe lobbywith Shite! will you have a plateful? Tak.

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It could not be a wall; but there could be a thin line there all round everything. [...] It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt small and weak. When would he be like the fellows in poetry and rhetoric?

Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position?

But I am curious to know are you trying to make a convert of me or a pervert of yourself?

Who watches me here? Who ever anywhere will read these written words? Signs on a white field.

Angel raised her hand. Excuse me. What does LTC stand for? She blinked innocently. Loving Tender Care?Gazzy suggested.If our instructor had had lasers for eyes, he would have sliced Gazzy in half. Lieutenant colonel, he sputtered.

Assume nothing, question everything.

ever hear of anyone falling

What—" I began.

initiated. All right, tell me what happened. Talk to me.

mind was only as good as the questions it was asked and the orders it was given.

I was questioned for eight hours

WHAT ARE WE looking at?

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament.

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

I had this really intense resolve. I would call universities and community colleges and say, 'I really want to go to college. How do I get to college? What do I do?' And they would say, 'You have to get an application. You have to get letters of recommendation.' It was terrifying. I had no idea what I was doing.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.