Quotes About Inquiry

We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.

Interviewing Questions •What word would you say describes you best? •Do you have a personal motto or creed? •Do you have any heroes that you greatly admire? •What did people in high school think you were like? •What do you do that you wish you could stop doing?

Se me debe exigir que busque la verdad, pero no que la encuentre.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Scepticismul este primul pas spre adev?r.

Ce qu'on n'a jamais mis en question n'a point été prouvé.

Thales did something different. He asked questions to which he didn't know the answers.

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There is no simple answer to such a question

What are you doing with the child? I inquired cautiously. I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet, he explained.

Ian—is that by chance Ian Murray?" Grey asked, but then answered himself. "I suppose it must be; how many Mohawks can there be named Ian?

You know historians - can't leave a puzzle alone

That's not what I asked," she said, a noticeable edge in her voice. "I asked why my father shot him." He sighed. She could have found gainful employment with the Spanish Inquisition, he thought ruefully; no chance of escape or evasion.

It is for this reason that a scientist constructs hypotheses—suggestions for the cause of an observation. But a hypothesis must never be confused with an explanation—with proof.

Comment sont vos selles, grandpere? - Germain to Jamie.

DON'T ASK QUESTIONS YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR THE ANSWERS TO In the woods, an hour's ride outside Philadelphia JOHN GREY HAD BEEN quite resigned to

No," he repeated, more sharply. "Of course I did not kill Gerald Siverly. What kind of flapdoodle is that?" Grey thought briefly of inquiring whether there was more than one sort of flapdoodle and, if so, what the categories might be, but thought better of it and ignored the question as rhetorical.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're a very difficult person, and we were having trouble answering your questions. Why are you asking so many questions?'

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

VCs are good at asking questions.

I think some people don't even know what they're talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.

Theatre is what I'm passionate about, it's what I do day in day out, and I love people asking questions about it.

I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'