“But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry.” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves. — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce... — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America. — Edward Snowden 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
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion. — William Crookes Copy Share Image
My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share… — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We might begin by scanning our body . . . and then asking, "What is happening?" We might also ask, "What wants… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas.… — Sam Harris 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
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
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
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
Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a… — George Henry Lewes 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
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength… — Samuel Johnson 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
That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights.… — Vera John-Steiner Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it… — Marilyn Strathern Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A kiss is an inquiry on the second floor as to what's going on on the first floor. — Theresa Russell Copy Share Image
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. — Horace Copy Share Image
Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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