Quotes About Inquiry

stubbornly unsolved, and of the laborious and ongoing task of decipherment and translation. For the curious amateur

if I didn't ask questions, the truth would still be the truth.

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

Truth always leaves a pleasure asking questions.

Two of the band members in Wings walked out in the same week for different reasons, and he never asked why," Henry mused. "You can take from that what you want.

Why were you staring at me?" the girl asked. The boy replied, "Because you are beautiful.

Thank you, sir. But, uh, can you tell me where the First New York Regiment is?

So... I take it that's the man in your life.

What are you looking at? Hale asked. Why are you smiling? I worry when you smile.

Is Joe your father, Zach?' I don't know where the question came from, but it was out, and I couldn't take it back even if I'd wanted to. 'No.' Zach shook his head. 'I never knew my dad. I don't know anything about him.

Your test had cheese meteor questions?

Cammie, where did you get that necklace?

But why?" Maddie sounded like someone who had been waiting her entire life to ask that question. She looked like someone who would wait a lifetime more for an answer.

The quest for knowledge in science is a never-ending journey, where every answer births new questions.

if this Roman dude's as bad as you say, then why are you lurking outside his store looking all charged and heated like a dog waiting for its owner?

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

My only weapon is the question.

The type of science that I do is sometimes known as 'curiosity-driven research.' This means that my work will never result in a marketable product, a useful machine, a prescribable pill, a formidable weapon, or any direct gain.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.

I've always been into asking the big questions; I'm the last guy out the door at closing time cuz I was sittin' around 'til the wee hours with the other ones who were asking the same things.

I see myself as more of a student, that I love to get down into the weeds of different problems and try to go through that. I don't mind messaging, but I'm going to default back to the research side of things.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that.