Quotes About Inquiry

If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

I've been asked a lot lately if I had a hard time getting pregnant. I've been asked how I conceived. In the same way everyone else does!

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

The media's job is to question a premise.

Being prepared helps you feel more confident at the doctor's office. Think about what you want to ask and write those questions down.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.

I go to the lab and in order to interact with my postdoctoral students and try to see if I can shape them to not copy but to ask questions and to think. We have to have a little dialogue because you don't pretend to be the fountain of all wisdom.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

My friends and the people I know understand that I'm going to ask them what they're doing, how they're dating, who they're dating, where they're going and what they're doing. I'm constantly asking those questions and making sure I'm in touch with the customer.

If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them. I think that is what real writers do. They don't tell people how to live or what to think. They write in order to try to answer their own deepest questions.

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

I'm going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, 'How is this going to create jobs?'

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Asking questions about why I don't want kids is really none of your business, but at least it's a dialogue.

I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.