Quotes About Inquiry

As well ask what sort of animal ivory comes from, or what kind of plant grows silk. Unless that comes from an animal, too." "I

wind stiffened as dusk closed in. Mat began to ask querulously

gaze. It had been a rhetorical question, and she was astounded

Science grows by its mu answers more than by its yes or no answers.

May, will you please, kindly DIG it, he remembered one of them saying, and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions? If you got to ask what IS it all the time, you'll never get time to KNOW.

What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.

The answer doesn't seem to satisfy him. But he can't seem to say what's wrong with it.

He is not stubborn, not narrow-minded, not lazy, not stupid. There was just no easy explanation. So it was left up in the air, a kind of mystery that one gives up on because there is no sense in just going round and round and round looking for an answer that's not there.

A very strong case can be made for the statement that science grows by its mu answers more than by its yes or no answers.

You follow these little discrepancies long enough and they sometimes open up into huge revelations.

Which reminds me," I said. "You got my pistol?" "Smith." "And Wesson?" "Ben Smith.

The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of our sense of mystery, not to cure us of our sense of mystery. The purpose of science is to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate that mystery. To always use it in a context where we are helping people in trying to resist the forces of ideology that we are all familiar with.

The applicant was taken aback by that question.

They do not challenge their assumptions

he never bothered to look them up.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?

How are you going to find out about things if you don't ask questions?

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive – it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it's such an interesting world. It

but how you going to find out about things if you don't ask questions?

She said I must have asked her a thousand already. I suppose I had, too, but how you going to find out about things if you don't ask questions?

I want to know... not just believe... that the world is round.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive