Quotes About Inquiry

Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real problem is your questions aren't big enough.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

I am not a scientist.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Science is always inquiring.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

Research is appreciation.

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.