Quotes About Inquiry

Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested....

This inquiry began with a deceptively simple question. How does it happen that serious people continue to believe in progress, in the face of massive evidence that might have been expected to refute the idea of progress once and for all?

When you can't answer the question, flip it over. Forget what makes something go fast--what makes it slow down?

The best way to kill a good thing is question it to death.

What...what are you?" she asked. "I'm Batman.

By doubting we come at truth.

Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded.

Quién dicen los hombres que soy yo?

You can say 'What are you looking for' and 'Who are you looking for.' Can you say 'Where are you looking for'?

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

First of all, I must make it clear that this girl does not know herself apart from the fact that she goes on living aimlessly. Were she foolish enough to ask herself 'Who am I?', she would fall flat on her face. For the question 'Who am I?' creates a need. And how does one satisfy that need? To probe oneself is to recognize that one is incomplete.

Look, haven't you noticed, none of your questions have answers?

é assim porque é assim. Existe no mundo outra resposta? Se alguém sabe de uma melhor, que se apresente e a diga, estou há anos esperando.

But there are questions I asked myself as a child and that were never answered, they still echo mournfully: did the world make itself? But where did it make itself? in what place? And if it was by the energy of God - how did it begin? could it be like now when I am being and at the same time making myself? It's because of the absence of an answer that I get so bothered.

Tens o hábito de querer saber por quê - e porque não me interessa, a causa é matéria de passado.

The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

Experimentation is an active science.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.