Quotes About Inquiry

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

I love documentaries and TED talks.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.

I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

I don't like to boss people around. I don't get motivated by telling people what to do, I don't take any pleasure in it. So I manage with curiosity, by asking questions.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

Guilford thought he knew what science was. It was nothing more than curiosity … tempered by humility, disciplined with patience. Science

Whatever happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?

What's inside, what's the place apart from this one?

going?" he called without losing

He believed that a teacher should stimulate and guide the student with questions, so that the student not only was exposed to the answer but remembered how the answer was reached.

I say we have Del and Faz ask around, find out if any cats have gone missing in the kid's neighborhood or if he trolls the Internet

I am Solomon Kane." The voice was resonant and powerful. "Are you prepared to meet your God?" "Why, Monsieur," Le Loup answered, bowing, "I assure you I am as ready as I ever will be. I might ask Monsieur the same question." "No doubt I stated my inquiry wrongly," Kane said grimly. "I will change it: Are you prepared to meet your master, the Devil?

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

Every cradle asks us "Whence?" and every coffin "Whither?" The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as well as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought...

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

Lincoln never finished his education. To the night of his death he was a pupil, a learner, an inquirer, a seeker after knowledge. You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might

In a way, an explanation had never been the point. She had simply liked being the only one who wanted to find out the truth.

Where the fuck are you? There's no noise." "In Cornwall." For a moment, Strike expected Shanker to ask where that was. Shanker was almost impressively ignorant of the country that lay beyond London.

If he texted about Morris, there was a good chance that Robin would call him back to find out how Joan was.