Quotes About Inquiry

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

But I still have questions, and the way to get answers is to bear her corrections.

What is wrong with you? This question gets stuck in your dreams.

Enter the title) "...It takes a personal question (or moment of doubt could be another way of thinking about it) and interrogates lines of inquiry surrounding that question, historically and psychologically. After a while the answer is known but it no longer matters because the expanding life of the question is what keeps us reading. This is the kind of book that demands I slow down the closer I get to its end, preparing myself for the loss of the speaker in my world.

You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

True science is never speculative it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

But of, but what, but whether, but who, but nevertheless, but insofar, but why, but otherwise, but even if-

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

People asks when they are in need. People questions when they don't want to heed.

There is greed in questioning if you keep on asking the same question.

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

The author has discovered to his cost that if you call a zoo to ask the cubic volume of the average adult camel, they treat you as if you are a complete idiot.

There was also more practical inquiry. How should I make a living? How do I get my relatives out of my house? Could you help me postpone payment of this loan? The dervishes had jobs in the workday world: mason, weaver, bookbinder, grocer, hatmaker, tailor, carpenter. They were craftsmen and -women, not renunciates of everyday life, but affirmative makers and ecstatics. Some people call them sufis, or mystics. I say they're on the way of the heart.

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew): Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. (RUDYARD KIPLING)

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

But with all its truth, the argument cannot answer the time-honored question: who educates the educators, and where is the proof that they are in possession of "the good?

God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

Para hablar no tengo la cabeza despejada, si no, le preguntaría qué hay que ver en mí.

This was it. Kiyomi realized it now. This was what her heart had reacted to. Her heart thrilled to mitochondria. But why?

And your man?' He hesitates. 'Long dead too?' It is the most delicate way that can be contrived, to ask a man if he has killed someone.