Quotes About Inquiry

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

I do like to believe there is no stupid and or funny question because in fact if we don't ask than we don't learn.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Skepticism is the beginning of faith.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse

True progress in every scientific field means that the problems become multiplied and that new questions keep coming to the surface.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

Why doesn't anyone ask me anything about the last two years?" I asked her. "The answer is very simple. We're afraid to ask because we're afraid of knowing... Maybe if we don't talk about it, and maybe if we pretend it never happened, it will be forgotten.

Nos da miedo preguntar porque nos da miedo saber.

Prefiero que mi mente se abra movida por la curiosidad a que se cierre movida por la convicción. GERRY SPENCE