Quotes About Inquiry

Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask

He began to ask me questions, as though he had learned to remind himself to do so, and I wondered what or who had taught him that lesson, which many people never learn.

we were ourselves again, ready to toothcomb the universe.

It was best not to ask too many questions. Especially since you'd get the answers. And the answers were usually followed by a tightening of Kate's forehead and a tick in her left eye. The tightening could cause wrinkles, the tick a tumor, and Kate didn't need to borrow that kind of trouble.

I prodded at my emotions with a long stick as if they were something dead in the woods. I interrogated myself. Are you sad? Are you angry? Are you disappointed? Heartbroken?

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.

As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.

If I was the Bachelorette again, the second I walked into the house after meeting everyone I would say, 'Who did you vote for and why? Let's talk about it.'

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.

Every time we get a story that says there was a Big Bang, then people want to know what was before that. And if we find out, what was before that?

We're always asked the same three questions. If we're on our own we get, 'Where's your mate, then?' If we're in a car it's, 'Where's your bike, then?' And if you're having a meal, we get, 'You're not cooking, then?'

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

What you don't know would make a great book.

Never ask a bore a question.

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers.

Any U.S. attorney's office would fall over itself to investigate, for example, a state governor who, while running for reelection against a former mayor, so much as hinted to the mayor's successor that, say, highway funds would be restricted unless the current mayor were to announce an inquiry into her predecessor's alleged corruption.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

When my son was little, he asked me: 'Daddy, which is worser, sugar or salt?' I still don't know the answer.

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.

A researcher has to be able to identify key points and suggest intelligent questions.