Quotes About Inquiry

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do as a parent at home.

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?

I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.

I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know.

Emma Harrison, Phoebe Who?

Will there be cheese?" asked Chisolm.

Pardon me Mam, I'm new in town, could you please show me the way to your house?

Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.

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.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

Science have imagination, most people doubt about that. This word "Doubt" makes a lot of stuff interesting.

Wondering is a positive madness.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.