Quotes About Inquiry

We say, how did it happen? We ask ourselves." The duke sniffs. "We ask ourselves, but by the steaming blood of Christ we have no bloody answer." The steaming blood of Christ. It's an oath worthy of Thomas Howard, the senior duke.

Okay kid," she told it. "The universe belongs to the curious.

The universe belongs to the curious.

Have you discovered aught of my erstwhile murderer?

The only mistake you have made is asking the wrong question. It isn't about what you did wrong. It's what you have not yet done.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

La chiave di tutte le scienze è indiscutibilmente il punto di domanda.

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

We should Google it. Don't sneer at me.

Accept nothing. Believe nothing. Check everything,

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?" I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.

When we talk about homeschooling today, we're amazed at how many people agree that they didn't learn much in school, that school teaches kids to pass the test and move on rather than explore and investigate and inquire...

Because we cannot be skilled at thinking unless we are skilled at questioning, we strive for a state of mind in which essential questions become second nature. They are the keys to productive thinking, deep learning, and effective living.

Be aware: When we understand the structures of thought, we ask important questions implied by these structures.

When a peculiar fact or well-stated bit of information triggers a poem, most of what I'll need is there where I stumbled on it. If questions arise later (moons of Jupiter, a three-syllable squid), Google is awfully handy of course.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.

My process varies, but I usually start by reading everything I can, especially financial and legal filings. Then I build a list of all of the people I want to contact and send in requests for public records, if applicable.

It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.

Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes.

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.