Quotes About Inquiry

19. I wrote in my notebook that even if all the possible scientific questions are answered, our problem is still not touched at all.

Change depends on the questions we ask. Always providing we are willing to ask them. And a t a certain point, I set out to find those questions.

don't understand why you would want

The wise are doubtful,' Socrates returned, 'and I should not be singular if I too doubted.

But in Athens, in Platonic Athens, at least, the idea that each man must himself be a research worker in the truth if he were ever to attain to any share in it, seemed rather to attract than to repel.

But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing . . .

And later times thinges more vnknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene? What if within the Moones fayre shining sphere, What if in euery other starre vnseene Of other worldes he happily should heare?

Freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge.

The philosophers of Greece deduced their morals from the nature of man, rather than from that of God. They meditated, however, on the Divine Nature, as a very curious and important speculation; and in the profound inquiry, they displayed the strength and weakness of the human understanding. [

Freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge. -V6

What obsesses me more than anything in the world . . . is why some things happen and why other things don't. It doesn't seem to me there is any logic, any way of . . . you know . . .

The historian, like any other scientist, is an animal who incessantly asks the question: Why?

Boy, are you fuckin' those worms again?

All she remembered was that Caligula had planned to torture his wife to find out why he was so devoted to her. What was David's excuse, she wondered.

You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Objective reality, the world view produced by the spirit of scientific inquiry, is the myth of our time.

Don't waste your time asking somebody else's question.

the mystery of all things, from the greatest to the least: everything can be explained, except their existence.