Quotes About Inquiry

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.