Quotes About Inquiry

It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

Why do we do the things that we do?

But I don't know anything about investigative reporting." Alan looked at me for what I remember as a very long time. "Just remember," he said. "Turn every page. Never assume anything. Turn every goddamned page.

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

He could not afford to believe anything that he was told, or that he read, or that was implicitly assumed to be true about the world around him. No, he could not believe any of it, for the sum total of what be had been told and read and been taught in school was so contradictory, so senseless, so wildly insane that none of it could be believed unless he personally confirmed it.

An Ad-Hoc Inquiry Concerning the Optimization of the Infrastructure of Primary Educational Institutions at the Interface Between Administration and Instruction, with Special Attention to Group Dynamics Desiderata.

I see. Well—got everything you want?" "Yes," admitted Monroe-Alpha, "unless you should happen to have concealed, somewhere about your person, a hypersphere, a hypersurface, and some four-dimensional liquid, suitable for fine lubrication.

a thousand reasoned opinions are never equal to one case of diving in and finding out.

That's what makes you unhappy," Marcie said. "You ask too many questions.

That's what I mean by Guerrilla Ontology; it's getting people to think, giving them puzzles that force them to think.

Orthodoxies of all sorts are maintained by partly the intolerance I have been documenting and partly by — simple lack of curiosity. Heresy is not-tuned-in, if one already has certitude.

We don't ask other teachers about their sexual habits.

Sam, what do you think happened?

Life does not provide answers, only questions.

Pike held out Karen's photograph. "Have you seen this woman?" "No. I am sorry." Every word like that. Without contractions.

Por que você sempre responde com outra pergunta? E por que você sempre busca nos outros as respostas às suas perguntas?

Oh,Angus, where's the beef?

Who rebels with mathematics?

Ask me what you wish; just do not ask me for reasons.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

What are you doing now?" Al questioned, listing heavily as he tucked another one of those bottles under his arm and staggered for the cot half hidden behind a curtain. "Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is.

Al brought his attention back down from the ceiling. "You really don't want to have sex with him? Why? What's wrong with him?

Put a scoop of ice cream on it?" she asked. "And coffee. Everyone want coffee?" She looked inquiringly at us, smiling in a way that made me decidedly nervous, especially after that "I can get us a body" remark, and I nodded.Coffee? Why not?

Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possit.