“Do not ask questions until you have trained yourself not to know the answers.” — Jack Gardner Copy Share Image
The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. — James Hutton Copy Share Image
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else. — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth. — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think ofa… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in… — Socrates Copy Share Image
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once,… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Stalin was experimenting with telepathy in the 1930's. Winston Churchill had a paranormal office, trying to get people to travel out of… — Peter James Copy Share Image
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached… — William Mitchinson Hicks Copy Share Image
“I think it is always important to ask fundamental questions, but when we do ask a fundamental question, most of us are… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel Copy Share Image
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it… — Parmenides Copy Share Image
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary… — George Will Copy Share Image