Quotes About Inquiry

Aunque las luces estaban apagadas, Langdon notaba que todos estaban atónitos. Y él notaba un cosquilleo en su interior. Por eso se dedicaba a la docencia.

Did you mount her? the agent asked, looking over. Langdon glanced up, certain he had misunderstood. I beg your pardon?

There has to be more than this," I said. The doctor looked up from his grim work with a bemused smile. "Is there?" he said. "Please show me." He lifted the man's heart and seemed to weigh it in one hand.

As Ummon and the other Masters teach, it explains why the giraffe evolved a long neck but never why the other animals did not. It explains why humankind evolved to intelligence, but not why the tree near the front gate refused to.

You'll have to ask him in the next life," said Sol tiredly. "He's dead.

It wasn't so much that I was in search of answers. In fact, I was wary of the whole idea of answers. I wanted to climb all the way inside of the questions and see what was there.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

The first literary work in prose was history. And we call Herodotus (c.480–c.425 B.C.) the Father of History because his is the earliest surviving work in Greek prose that aimed to give literary form to an extended narrative of the past. The Greek historie means "inquiry" or the search for truth. Herodotus might also perhaps be called the Father of Prose, for until his time verse was still the normal vehicle for narratives of great events and heroes of the past.

Explanations need not be valid to be of value. In religion, as in other fields of inquiry, a suggestive and original theory can, even in failure, stimulate new inquiry or reformulate problems in such a way as to promote fruitful new understandings. (p.10).

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot — a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there until someone draws your attention to it.

And this thought is a question: Why? "Why, why, why, why, why, why?" the tiger asks itself hour after hour, day after day, year after year, as it treads its endless path behind the bars of its cage. It cannot analyze the question or elaborate on it. If you were somehow able to ask the creature, "Why what?" it would be unable to answer you.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot - a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there unit someone draws your attention to it.

Rather than jumping straight into the answers, let's try to start students off with the sort of questions that encourage them to do their own seeking.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.

The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.