Quotes About Inquiry

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

Legal immigration is a process. You learn everything about the people coming in. You find out how many of 'em are prone to vote Republican. You don't ask 'em this; you just learn.

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Are you laughing at me?" "No," he said. "No, I'm not. You're a curious person. You ask questions. That's why they don't like you. That's all." People who asked questions didn't necessarily like being asked questions. "What's wrong with asking questions?" "Nothing." Everything. Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt.

Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt.

What's wrong with asking questions?" "Nothing." Everything. Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt. His father had told him that. "Don't let them ask questions. You're already giving them the answers, even if they don't know it.

If I went rummaging through your carcass, would I find you?

some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

Why continue to tolerate a kind of armchair skepticism that has everything to do with scientistic propaganda and nothing at all to do with honest, rigorously open-minded collection, classification, and theory building, that is, with real science and real humanistic inquiry?

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

What about Wee Squirl? --Rose MacDonell

We dig up dinosaurs to try and figure out what happened to them. Perhaps someday dinosaurs, in the form of corvids, will dig us up to figure out what happened to us.

Think about it, Adam," Jim said. "Lady Amunsdale could tell us things. Could tell you things like...like...what that asshole Spencer's been up to. She is a witness. She's been here—everywhere—all along. Make Talia call her." Adam's expression shifted, his gaze sharpening with interest.

That's not the question, Isabelle," he said softly. "The question is, why do you believe them?

Asking questions, demanding explanations—these things always led to trouble

There has to be a reason things are the way they are here. If only I can find out what it is.

Asking questions, demanding explanations—these things always led to trouble. The moment a girl learned how to talk, she was told not to.

No, I didn't remember the deer. Is the deer okay?' 'Fuck the deer. Hush now.

Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious;

I want to find out if lions are real