Quotes About Inquiry

Maybe. Occam's disposable Bic razor might suggest so.

no estoy seguro; ¿tú qué piensas?".

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed.

What did you ask at school today

In this fashion, knowledge begets questions which beget new technology which provides answers--which in turn beget questions. This is the implacable carousel of research.

discovery starts with anomalies.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

If you can't have fun with Science, what good is it? -Einstein

Sun and water are questions endlessly worth answering.

I let the class out, ten minutes early. My students would have to figure out the rest of the origin of life on their own.

It had been a long day, and the thing he wanted to know would take ten years of coursework to grasp. But a child's question was the start of all things.

A healthy obsession, we could say, interrogates its own driving convictions.

People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't explain how. She didn't really want to know.

So why are we practicing this, anyway? Percy asked. Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?

Sacred Sibyl!" I cried. "Madam, there is something wrong with your midsection!" The woman stopped, mystified, and looked down at her hugely swollen belly. "Well, I'm seven months pregnant.

Fascinating, he said. Such maneuverability! How does the wingspan compensate for the weight of the horse's body, I wonder? Blackjack cocked his head. Whaaaat?

You're probably wondering: why were Medusa's kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa's body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I'm just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you're in the wrong universe

Excuse me, have you seen Death? Big guy with black feathery wings? Likes to reap souls?

You sure you're not a Roman, Annabeth? Or an Amazon?

Are you a ghost?

Quer dizer que todo mundo aqui toma Bebsi quando come bizza?

Ptah? son of ptooey? What is he god of spitting? i asked