Quotes About Inquiry

I grew up in my father's laboratory and played beneath the chemical benches until I was tall enough to play on them.

Sorting out which prejudices are to be criticized or rejected is not the beginning point of inquiry, but an end product, an achievement of inquiry.

Peirce relentlessly criticizes the subjectivism that lies at the heart of so much modern epistemology, and he develops an intersubjective (social) understanding of inquiry, knowing, communication, and logic.

When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the problematic of that science, but that the problematic is induced by the available means.

The reason for thinking that there will be no 'last' philosophy is simply that no answer can fail to be an answer to a question, and no question can guarantee its own permanent relevance.

and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

Has Timmy called?" "Timmy?" "Timothy J. Callahan. My great and good friend." "No. You think I'm running a dating service around here, Strachey? Doing social work among the perverts?" "I just asked if he'd phoned, Ned. Anyway, I'd never accuse the Albany Police Department of social work. Or even, in a good many cases, police work.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

So. Are you guys here to convert me or sell me siding?

Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?

Are we...does that mean...are we cousins ?

Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.

But why would Victor and Robert take her? And how the hell did two old men subdue a teenage girl anyway?

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't even started wondering about yet.

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

Anyone can ask questions," said Mr. Wonka. "It's the answers that count.

Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again. Do any of us children, she wondered, ever stop to ask ourselves where our teachers go when school is over for the day? Do we wonder if they live alone, or if there is a mother at home or a sister or a husband?

What sort of a book would you like to read next? she asked.

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

Alguna vez nos detenemos a pensar - se preguntó Matilda - dónde van nuestras profesoras cuando terminan de dar sus clases?

Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. What do you think? How do you read it? he asks, again and again and again.

Curiosity is underrated. In many ways, it's the engine of life. You get these questions, and they don't go away. And so you follow them, you set out to answer them.

And you get answers. And those answers, of course, lead to new questions. And on and on it goes.