Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry.… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher –… — John Countryman Copy Share Image
An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and… — Teresita Fernandez Copy Share Image
In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor… — Jack Cade Copy Share Image
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“A simple intuition, a single observation, can open vistas of unimagined potential. Once caught in the web of an idea, the researcher… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
