Quotes About Inquiry

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

I don't want to have all the answers, just the right questions.

Most gifted adults were socialized in a way that encouraged them to dismiss such deep inquiry. Finding answers to their most profound existential speculations is a task that requires immeasurable courage and fortitude.

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What about chickens?

As a rule, the extent to which politics can become the object of free scientific inquiry is a most accurate barometer by which to measure the degree of academic freedom in a country.

we must require an agreement to the principle that there are no sacred cows. Anything and everything must be the subject of free inquiry and skeptical investigation. To allow otherwise, for practical or any other kind of reasons, is an intellectual travesty.

Lana had a cocky grin. "You never get answers if you don't ask questions.

Be curious. Question everything. A present fact is just a future fiction.

She took a deep breath, as if the question were something she had to swim under.

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

Others abide our question. Thou art free.We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still,Out-topping knowledge.

He looked about the workroom, his eyes falling upon my integrator. "What manner of beast is that?" he said. "An unmannerly kind," I said. He extended a hand toward its head. "Does it bite?" "I don't know, but in a moment we may find out.

the primary purpose of college is to become a learner.

The authentic answer is always the question's vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open.

Everything is science and everything is philosophy.

All observation is already an intervention. One cannot experiment or observe without changing something in the subject of inquiry.

Philosophy...is a question....The human being is a question for God himself. We are not masters of this question.

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

It is entirely correct and completely in order to say, "You can't do anything with philosophy." The only mistake is to believe that with this, the judgment concerning philosophy is at an end. For a little epilogue arises in the form of a counter-question: even if we can't do anything with it, may not philosophy in the end do something with us, provided that we engage ourselves with it?

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.