Quotes About Inquiry

I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.

Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is.

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.

I'm bad at fishing for information.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

Our team at NBC's White House Unit always has a list of questions prepped and ready to go - for the president, for his aides, or for whoever else we're able to corner.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.

A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge.

What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

People who look for the first time through a microscope say, 'Now I see this, and then I see that,' and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time than many will believe, but I have done them with joy, and I have taken no notice of those who have said, 'Why take so much trouble,' and, 'What good is it?'

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

I think all of the directors I've worked with are mostly curious about the time I had on 'Eyes Wide Shut.' They really just want to know about it. They're all fans of Kubrick.

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.