Quotes About Inquiry

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live with them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now.

Live the questions now

And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.

Art?k etraflar?na bakmaya, aramaya baÅŸlad?lar; güçleri hep, bulunmaktan ibaret olan bu k?zlar.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

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

I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature?

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

Learning requires curiosity, exploration, evaluation, and dialogue. To be granted the product of knowledge without this process would violate what it means to be a creature.

Ask without pettiness Being before doing Convictions without compromise Discipline without dreariness Ask

Who Made God? Copyright © 2003 by Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler

Isn't it amazing that we can go through life holding passionately to our views, yet never pausing to ask ourselves why that view is inviolable?

How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing.

Millie? Does the White Clown love you?