Quotes About Inquiry

What is the stuff that makes everything that is?" they asked. That this remains the defining question of modern particle physics serves to show that the value of a great question is that it keeps generating answers that, in turn, keep changing as our methods of inquiry change.

humana é capaz de desvendar todos os mistérios. Isto é

The scientist does not study Nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If Nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if Nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.' One

Seventy-five thousand?

If. The smallest word, which raises the biggest questions.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart," Rilke wrote, advising a young poet, "and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue.… Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer.… [T]his is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people."9

It is less important—and ultimately perhaps rather futile—to reach ethical or intellectual conclusions about the unconscious than it is to create a space of inquiry where we diligently attend to how it continues to reincarnate the past in the present.

Oh, here we go, firing questions right and left. I sort of missed that part. [Mina's most endearing trait?]

No one holds so much knowledge that he can find nothing more interesting to know.

What the Fross?" Whispered Kero

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

the brain is wired to answer questions. No matter what question you ask, your brain will immediately start searching for an answer.

Great results begin with great questions.

C — Curiosity. What's happening here? What are the facts?

the best way to solve a problem is to first come up with better questions.

We must question every inner-belief we possess without fear or attachment.

I still don't have all the answers, but I'm no longer afraid to confront the questions.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.