Quotes About Inquiry

All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

William J. Bouwsma

for geometry, you know, is the gate of science, and the gate is so low and small that one can only enter it as a little child.

Si una persona, al sostener una creencia que le fue enseñada en la niñez o de la que fue persuadida más tarde, rebaja y echa al un lado todas las dudas sobre ella que broten en su mente, evita a propósito la lectura de libros y la compañía que la cuestione o la discuta, y ve como impías aquellas preguntas que no puedan contestarse fácilmente sin perturbarla, entonces la vida de esa persona es un único y largo pecado contra la humanidad.

Ask a physics teacher: Why do elementary particles exist? Is it impossible for them not to exist? (Be prepared for the possibility that your physics teacher doesn't want to have this conversation.)

Philosophy is surgery; surgery is philosophy.

The Enlightenment (The beginning of) a way of pursuing knowledge with a tradition of criticism and seeking good explanations instead of reliance on authority.

This is why the Royal Society (one of the earliest scientific academies, founded in London in 1660) took as its motto 'Nullius in verba', which means something like 'Take no one's word for it.

La curiosidad delimita el mundo de los vivos del de las sombras.

If you love your government, you are not paying attention.

It's a lot harder to pull your head up and ask why.

I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry," said the Sow. "What's that?" asked Lorina. "It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.

I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

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When anyone tells you they have all the answers it is time to race for the exits.

Technophilosophy is a combination of (1) asking philosophical questions about technology and (2) using technology to help answer traditional philosophical questions.

Christian theology must free the gospel not only to specify the answers but also to shape the questions.

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I like stupid questions," Rimmer said. "They allow one to feel intelligent for once.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

David M. Jacobs