Quotes About Inquiry

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

Science is practical philosophy.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge