Quotes About Inquiry

Really?" I asked, which is probably the only answer to anything in Conspiracy.

Said by Maltcassion the Dragon: Humans, he scoffed. Always so inquiring about stuff. Never satisfied with the status quo. It will be your downfall, but oddly enough, it´s also one of your more endearing features. Do we have any otheres? Oy yes, plenty.

Since nothing annoys a writer who doesn't write as much as being asked what he's writing

But he knew that was his own fault. He hadn't asked the right question. Water flows in the channel that is provided for it. The wrong question created the wrong channel.

Un beau livre, c'est celui qui sème à foison les points d'interrogation. »

Why are you sad?

Why do humans need answers? Partly I suppose because without one, almost any one, the question itself soon sounds silly.

Truth is a questioning place.

Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.

My message will be very clear; it is that I think we have to continue to read novels. Because I think that the novel is a very good means to question the current world without having an answer that is too schematic, too automatic. The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.

What are those?

You might think that there's some authority you could look for to answers, but all of the authorities you can think of are fake.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht. "Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.