Quotes About Inquiry

We provide proof of a question for which the answer is already known.

When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

The ceremonial key to the city of Padua] is engraved with a quote from Galileo that is also on display at the physics department of the university...'I deem it of more value to find out a truth about however light a matter than to engage in long disputes about the greatest questions without achieving any truth.

Early in the twentieth century, the physicist Lord Rutherford, best known for his landmark discovery of the atomic nucleus, famously pronounced, "All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Am I a vampire?" Massie asked. "Huh?" Alicia asked. "Then why are you keeping me in the dark?

A spell perhaps?" The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.

It's the most annoying question and they just can't help asking you. You'll be asked it at family gatherings, weddings, and on first dates. And you'll ask yourself far too often. It's the question that has no good answer. It's the question that when people stop asking it, you'll feel even worse. - WHY ARE YOU SINGLE?

In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

I could have run after him. I could have asked politely for some clarification. But I didn't I knew what I preferred, and that was—I didn't want to know. Rather, I wanted to believe.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Frecuentemente hay más que aprender de las preguntas inesperadas de un niño que de los discursos de un hombre" (John Locke)

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

How do you know so much about everything was asked of a very wise and intelligent man and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

And you didn't ask why she was in therapy?" "Who asks people why they go to see a psychologist? It's not right to ask such things.

Riggs looked at the cut on her face again. "Still fine," she said. "Is there someone I should call for you?" he asked. "Let them know you're okay?" "Nope" "Someone's got to be worried about you." "Nope" "No one?" She slid him a look. "Are you fishing to see if I'm in a relationship?" He almost smiled. "Are you?

we have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

And besides, she was curious. She had questions. And answering questions was very nearly always more important than caution.

Do you want to be my dad?

You wish answers? Yes. How can you expect to get them, when you do not yet know the proper questions?