Quotes About Inquiry

Are they going to let you to make up the test?" I ask.

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

My spirit welled up in its joy because I asked myself "why?" The dread key to all true knowledge is "why?

Aren't you curious? When did it stop working? Why did it stop working? Did we bring out the worst in each other? Was it just one persons fault or both of us? Aren't these questions everyone wants to ask when they split up with someone?

gentle interrogation. "Tell

Amazing, Heather thought, looking back at the email message. Who was this incredible, gifted person?

The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel.

TIVE A MESMA CURIOSIDADE na adolescência, ou até antes: desde sempre.

Was it that girl?

Once, when Solomon asked her what California was, she had replied, 'Heaven.

The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

Finding the answer to an eternal question creates bigger questions.

Yorda...that's your name?

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men (page 80).

WHAT is your name? WHAT is your quest? and WHAT is your favorite color?

Albertus Magnus, a thirteenth-century Dominican philosopher who performed experiments on plants, asserted: "Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

mathematicians of that century, like those of most great periods, were the very physicists and astronomers who raised the questions,