Quotes About Inquiry

Knowledge is the death of research.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Science probes; it does not prove.

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

Welcome to science. You're gonna like it here.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.