Quotes About Inquiry

What in Tink's knickers do you think you're doing!

Who is this repulsive dwarf?

Existence is the experiment itself.

Science fiction's] most important use, I submit, is a means of dramatizing social inquiry, as providing a fictional mode in which cultural tendencies can be isolated and judged.

han hadde studeret det herlig ut av kokeboken, men også spurt sig for hos de handelsreisende.

Should I have held them down and poured boiling water over them until they talked? Really, I'd like your expert advice. "Of course not. You would use boiling oil.

What changed your mind?" Say I did. Say it was me!

That don't look good, Kramisha said. Not good at all. She paused and then her eyes went from me to Heath, whose attention was so focused on me I swear he didn't look like he would notice if a giant white elephant in a tutu danced around the room. Ain't that the human kid who was down here before?

Have you brains? Asked the scarecrow. I suppose. I've never looked to see. Replied the lion.

Where is the Emerald City? he inquired. And who is Oz? Why, don't you know? she returned, in surprise. No, indeed. I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all, he answered sadly.

todavía miraba a su sobrina con expresión de extrañeza, preguntándose qué era lo que la hacía reír.

do not know where Kansas is, for I have never heard that country mentioned before. But tell me, is it a civilized country?

I do not know where Kansas is, for I have never heard that country mentioned before. But tell me, is it a civilized country?

Just who in the Hall are you, anyway?" Vuffi Raa said. Lando looked at the robot sharply. He hated having his good lines stolen.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.