Quotes About Inquiry

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Science can't tell you why anything happens.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

First causes are outside the realm of science.

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.

Science is nothing but the process of finding solutions.

... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.