Quotes About Inquiry

Never be reluctant to ask even the most basic of questions. Questions are the most effective method of eliciting knowledge.

No tengas el menor reparo en preguntar lo que sea, por más básico que parezca. Las preguntas son el modo más efectivo de suscitar el conocimiento.

Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.

And therefore, according as any one is more anxious in demanding a reason, by so much will he be the firmer in preserving his faith.9

What else can I do? are perhaps the five most powerful words anyone can say

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

was. Is she ours? French? British?" For long seconds Caleb studied the incoming fleck. "Can't tell." "How many? We got the whole British

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people," he told Morris. "In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Whenever one asks "Why?" in science, one actually means "How?". "Why?" is not really a sensible question in science because it usually implies purpose and, as anyone who has been the parent of a small child knows, one can keep on asking "Why?" forever, no matter what the answer to the previous question. Ultimately, the only way to end the conversation seems to be to say "Because!

The world has forgotten that there is more pleasure in wondering than knowing.

Where are the deputies?' 'On their way up to the first-aid post.' 'What happened to them?' 'I did.

Socratic, they call it in college. All kinds of back and forth, designed to elicit truths implicitly known by all rational beings.

Reacher] knew people with houses. He had talked to them, with the same kind of detached interest he would talk to a person who kept snakes as pets or entered ballroom dancing competitions.

How long was this one up there?' I said. 'Two or three days

Too many ifs, Reacher thought. And too few answers.

burglary for?

sent Summer away to do three things: first, list all female personnel at Fort Bird with access to their own Humvees, and second, list any of them who might have met Kramer at Fort Irwin in California, and third, contact the Jefferson Hotel in D.C. and get Vassell and Coomer's exact check-in and checkout times, plus details on all their incoming and outgoing phone calls.

No specimen jars. No weird stuff pickled in formaldehyde.

Car keys?" She

Do bears shit in the woods?

Firstly, I have no idea what you're talking about. I run my diner. That's it. Period, full stop. I have nothing else going on the side. And secondly, even if I did, what have you got that I could possibly want?

function for them? Or are you just some kind of onlooker?

They're coming at it through the name. The big guy is all over town, asking questions." He got a long plastic crackle in exchange, calm, mellifluous, and reassuring. He said, "OK, sure," but he didn't sound sure, and then he hung up the phone.