Quotes About Inquiry

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

Curiosity lies in a hidden corner of the scientific mind.

Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: "Oh, I'm not loving myself in this moment."

What exactly was your plan here, Mr. Andrews? To just walk in and flash your little smile, no questions asked?

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

The connection with him is a connection with part of myself, and it has to do with a kind of insatiable curiosity. I mean the part of me that gets connected to the rest of me when I'm connecting to him. The insatiably curious part.

The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

Only after badgering ministry officials for eight years was he allowed to look at the Commission of Inquiry testimony. He has published an annotated collection of it as a book.

But where do we find what's lasting? Where do the deathless things hide?

What's news?" She put the magazine down and looked at me. "Philip K. Dick is dead." "Who's that?" I asked.

Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

he should always be the one to ask questions, and address himself to what was on your mind rather than risk boring you with what was on his

but that apart he entirely talks about me- where do I live now, what am I reading, have I got a new play on but in that kind of half-attentive way politicians have, asking questions but scarcely listening to the answers- royalty, I imagine similarly.

Theoretical physics is the deepest and purest branch of science. It is the outpost of science closest to philosophy, and religion. Experimental scientists occupy themselves with observing and measuring the cosmos, finding out what stuff exists, no matter how strange that stuff may be. Theoretical physicists, on the other hand, are not satisfied with observing the universe. They want to know why .