Quotes About Inquiry

Isn't it enough that this world exists?... Wai-Mae asked. No, Ling said. I want to know how it works. I just want to be happy, Wai-Mae said.

Una pregunta para la eternidad: ¿está locamente enamorada de mí la dama que tengo a la derecha?

Isn't it enough that this world exists? That we can be everything here that we can't be when we are awake?" Wai-Mae asked. "No," Ling said. "I want to know how it works.

Why are you here?" Marian's

Got a better theory?

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new question, then it is time to die

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Only when you question does society move or advance at all.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

Asking good questions is half of learning.

"What are you doing here anyway?" "'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?"

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.

Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide

Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Play is the highest form of research.