Quotes About Inquiry

I certainly didn't set out to create something famous there. I just set out to find some answers to questions that were nagging me. As in life, so in science: One thing leads to another, and before you know it, you find yourself someplace you never imagined going.

Who is it that can tell me who I am?

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me? Catherine: I cannot tell. Henry: Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.

How now, spirit! Whither wander you?

A tko si ti, što tu pod plaštem no?i U tajne moje misli prodireš?

What time o' day? ROSALINE: The hour that fools should ask.

By love that first did prompt me to inquire; He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot, yet wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I should adventure for such merchandise.

Knock... and ask your heart what it doth know.

When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles

Why must you plague me with these questions in the middle of the night?

combined to break his reserve; before he knew it, he had joined in a discussion, one of those half cynical, half serious discussions which are characteristic of an age which inquires because it doubts, and doubts the more because it has inquired.

But any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Why there's still all this space inside me I don't know.

The most important word in our planet's lexicon is why. We suspect this is true of other galaxies too.

Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread from your train.

How should we live? someone asked me in a letter. I had meant to ask him the same question. 0 likes

Considering the bird, considering the stick, perhaps finally I'll also find out what it is with the mouths. (Why? How? What an absurdity!)

One should no more rack one's brain about the problem of whether something one cannot know anything about exists all the same, than about the ancient problem of how many angels are able to sit on the point of a needle.

El genio irlandés Parnell sabía la respuesta, pero nadie le formularía la pregunta.

Jednak zasadniczy problem brzmi: Czy co? jest tam, na zewn?trz? I dlaczego? I czy musi tak ha?asowa??

And moreover, his curiosity and thirst for knowledge were such that he must needs inquire from every one he met the explanation of this, that, and the other; and his own wits were so lively that he was ever ready with an answer himself for any question put to him, so that talkativeness had become, as it were, his second nature. But

What do you do for a living? The first thing everyone always wants to know is what I do when I'm not sleeping, what sorts of exams and theses I have to my name as if they wanted to reserve a place in my curriculum vitae for the date of my death. There ought to be a curriculum vitae whose first line is the date of death.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.