Quotes About Inquiry

One consequence of this change was the missing binoculars for the lookouts. On the trip to Southampton from Belfast, the lookouts had used the now-departed second officer's binoculars, which he had locked in a drawer in his cabin before he left the ship. When Lightoller inquired about binoculars for the lookouts, he was told that none were available for them.

As journalists the first lesson we learnt was not to sit on judgment but raise questions.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

the very phenomenon being investigated may be changed by the inquiry itself. It is as if there were a principle of human indeterminacy at work.

Hunger. The first word he had spoken as BeeJee &ersenn knelt beside him on the streaming cobbles. He had rubbed his hands across his belly and said, "Why do I feel this?" Such an incredible question.

The universe does not owe us our desires, but it may grant a good question.

So, whazzit dis time, cizzen?

question they couldn't answer as yet. What mattered to them

I asked a child, walking with a candle, 'From where comes that light?' Instantly he blew it out. 'Tell me where it is gone — then I will tell you where it came from.' (Hasan of Basra)

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.

No such thing as a stupid question

Scientists study only those aspects of the universe that it is within their gift to study: what is observable; what is measurable and amenable to statistical analysis; and, indeed, what they can afford to study within the means and time available. Science thus emerges as a giant tautology, a "closed system". It can present us with robust answers only because its practitioners take very great care to tailor the questions.

A fool is he who begs of thee the answers to all creation.

Asking about the childhood is asking for the truth.

The more I reveal, the more questions they will have.

We have explored this world and now is the time to explore the world in which our world resides.

We will never stop having things to know.

You must explore beyond that of any other before you; you must seek new discoveries; then come ever so closer to revealing the ultimate mystery.

Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?

People always ask me: "Why?! Oh God why?!" Mostly at the beach.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.

And, when we continue to ask, "What do you want through that," at some point the answers always flip to something positive.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber