Quotes About Inquiry

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

What we need is a treasure house, not of knowledge, but of ignorance. Something that gives not answers but questions. Something that shines light, not on already garish facts, but into the dark, damp corners of ignorance. And

Any fool can find answers. People who ask new questions, they are the geniuses

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.

Nature answers only when she is questioned.

The question "why" is too deep for science. Science instead believes it can only learn "how" something occurs.

Jacob Henle, the first scientist to formulate the modern germ theory, echoed Francis Bacon when he said, "Nature answers only when she is questioned.

The greatest challenge of science, its art, lies in asking an important question and framing it in a way that allows it to be broken into manageable pieces, into experiments that can be conducted that ultimately lead to answers.

The revolution of modern science and especially medical science began as science not only focused on this answer to "What can I know?" but more important, changed its method of inquiry, changed its answer to "How can I know it?

And the way one goes about answering a question, one's methodology, matters as much as the question itself. For the method of inquiry underlies knowledge and often determines what one discovers: how one pursues a question often dictates, or at least limits, the answer.

how individuals explore nature—how one does science. And the way one goes about answering a question, one's methodology, matters as much as the question itself. For the method of inquiry underlies knowledge and often determines what one discovers: how one pursues a question often dictates, or at least limits, the answer.

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn't encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

Play is the highest form of research.

Curiosity is the primary fuel that drives lifelong education.

'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species.