At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought... Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts;… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most… — Jim Rohn 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
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a… — William Blake 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 achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
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
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Rather than be afraid of evolution and try to stifle inquiry, people should revel in the joys of knowing and find a… — Sylvia Earle 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
The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly,… — Bobby Ray Inman Copy Share Image
If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry.… — Ford Madox Ford 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
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers; because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the… — Socrates 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
Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in… — Douglas Adams 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
Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry.… — Virginia H. Pearce Copy Share Image
We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
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