If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent… — Thomas Jefferson 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
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Stop looking all over the place for "the answers" - whatever they are - and start looking for the questions - the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The… — Cleta Mitchell Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and… — Zoe Weil Copy Share Image
In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think… — Henry David Thoreau 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