Quotes About Inquiry

People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma.

I get asked really dumb questions.

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

Always ask for advice. I email with a lot of girls that are like, 'How do I do this, how do I do that.' Stay up on what's cool and what's interesting.

Science does not emerge in some perfect, complete crystalline form.

A question is a question at the end of the day. It's up to me if I want to answer them.

The moment you start asking questions, you become public enemy number one.

When I can find a story that explores something that I don't know what I think, I've got a play. If I knew the answer, I would write a speech or an essay.

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?

one measure of a book is the degree to which it generates good questions,

Don't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?" ~ Immanuel Velikovsky

Cui ii e dat sa traiasca un "de ce" indura aproape orice "cum".

So, the whole barn of psychic research must be burnt down as quickly as possible, making sure that the telepathic horses don't escape.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.

People would ask him what a Gobelin was, why the Jacobins had betrayed Robespierre, how rayon was manufactured, what made a section caesarean. Grandfather had all the answers.

It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, "So? Did you learn anything today?" But not my mother. "Izzy," she would say, "did you ask a good question today?" That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.

It is not foolish to ask a question of the world. We of Vlar-rei make songs or our questions. It is only foolish to want answers.