For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible… — Giovanni Battista Beccaria Copy Share Image
When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
“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
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself. — John Henry Newman 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
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
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
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
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
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the… — Patrick O'Brian 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
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge. — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into… — Norman Potter Copy Share Image
Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
