Quotes About Inquiry

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

We don't know a tenth of what there is to know," Mr. Pendergast said. "Why we don't even know a sixth.

Is it true you're James Adams?' a puffed-out little grey shirt holding a tennis racket asked. 'The guy who started the food fight and had sex in the campus fountain?

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

asked, his voice tight.

It is possible that his curiosity was piqued, for with the exception of a hen-turkey, a boy of nineteen is the most openly curious biped alive.

Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a question streams a wonderful fragrance.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us." —ADLAI STEVENSON (1952)

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

We're designed by natural selection to get satisfaction out of finding the answers to questions.

Yo no soy un perverso, soy un curioso de esta fuerza enorme que está en mí.

Having an answer is a comfort. It's when you start asking questions and those questions pull threads in the larger fabric, you're forced to wonder what you're left with. And for people of any age, it's scary to think the fabric of the universe - or the universe as you've always believed it existed - can just unwind, you know?

Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask.

Why?" A simple question unlocks best

How long? I asked, and then remembered that speech came from my mouth. 'How long?

Biologists may make unsuitable dinner conversation, but we are seldom bored.

To me, an experiment is a kind of conversation with plants: I have a question for them, but since we don't speak the same language, I can't ask them directly and they won't answer verbally. But plants can be eloquent in their physical responses and behaviors. Plants answer questions by the way they live, by their responses to change; you just need to learn how to ask.

What lies beyond our grasp remains unnamed.

My questions were bigger than science could touch.

What's her name? None of your business. That can't possibly be her name.