Quotes About Inquiry

If there is something I don't know and I suspect that I need clarification and so does the viewer, I just ask for it.

As an anchor, I want to make sure we're exploring all angles on a story. The viewer can make up their own mind.

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

My views are more based on life and discovery and research than just what I'm told.

I wonder why I seem to be more curious about you than you are about yourself?

Expectations were never in short supply. "Do you want to know?" he asked. "I suppose it depends on the answer." "Which answer would you prefer?" "I'm not really sure. Both leave a lot to be desired.

If you still have to ask, shame on you.

If you gotta ask, you'll never know.

James believed that scientific inquiry, like any other form of inquiry, is an activity inspired and informed by our tastes, values, and hopes. But this does not, in his view, confer any special authority on the conclusions it reaches. On the contrary: it obligates us to regard those conclusions as provisional and partial, since it was for provisional and partial reasons that we undertook to find them.

Darwin's ideas are devices for generating data. Darwin's theory opens possibilities for inquiry; Agassiz's closes them.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery."

If you don't know something, ask. You have to be able to admit you don't know something, otherwise you'll just get more and more confused, or worse, you'll jump to a false conclusion. All the mistakes I've made have been because I've assumed something and then acted as though it was fact.

He felt like a mobile library. Where other investigators gathered fingerprints and evidence, he gathered books.

They looked at each other, and then, in unison, all three said, "Tell me what you know.

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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

Until proven innocent, I regard all "gardenias" as I do footprints of the Snowman, engines that run on vacuum energy, or good wines from Savoie.

A child said What is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he." ?— ?Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself

Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the possibilities that can be born out of thoughts and musings, and they link together pattern that define our lives.

If there is ever anything you want to know, you just ask me and we'll find the answer in a book." This was a wonderful thing to hear and I believed her.

Solo gli imbecilli non hanno dubbi" "Ne sei proprio sicuro?" "Non ho alcun dubbio!