There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Inquiry appears to be a process of thinking, but actually it's a way to undo thinking. Thoughts lose their power over us… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
By the help of Microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visable World… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe. It is the dialogue… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large… — David Willetts Copy Share Image
A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
