Quotes About Inquiry

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

I have an increasingly strong feeling that all of us, myself included, too many times make too many statements and don't ask enough questions.

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

What happens when we questions power structures? What are the consequences?

Orange County is a place where you can ask people if that's their real hair color; you can ask them if that diamond is real; you can ask if that car is a lease. But you cannot ask if someone is a Democrat.

The questions that we scientist have about Saturn's rings are the questions that an ordinary person might be moved to ask when first seeing them, you know. What caused them? How did they get there? How long have they been around? How long are they going to last?

The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too.

You try to ask the best questions possible, but you don't necessarily control the outcome.

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.

More often than not, wisdom is at the mercy of curiosity.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I'd just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

Where, exactly, was this hell?

The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?' " -Rovender Kitt

The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?

YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.

If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.