For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last… — Brad Warner 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
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
THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy. — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
In shows where the audience wants to try to understand the work, the work is placed in a space of possibility where… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
I have great concern, but my concern is probably not what most people would think it would be.My concern is why is… — Paula White Copy Share Image
We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.I would not attack the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
...You know something, don't you?" "I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific." "Just answer the question." "True/false or… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without… — Paul Kurtz 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
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image