Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and… — Max Black Copy Share Image
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson 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
We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity. — Joseph Goebbels 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
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e.,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Inquiry—by which I mean learning, investigation, education, and the pursuit of knowledge in general—has a history. That is, how people have understood… — Heath White Copy Share Image
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
First, draw off your hearts, because Jesus Christ, the Head, is risen and ascended upon high, and there sits at the right… — Christopher Love Copy Share Image
In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient,… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Atheism is the default position in any scientific inquiry, just as a-quarkism or a-neutrinoism was. That is, any entity has to earn… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their… — Francis Galton 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
One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere or do anything, not to turn back, or stop… — Ulysses S. Grant 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
“There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing… — George Boole 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
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions. — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false,… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found. — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
“You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist. — Anonymous 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
Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and… — Roy Romer Copy Share Image
“Building the inquiry community with students will take time. An inquiry community is made up of students with an inquiry mind set.” — Carol C. Kuhlthau Copy Share Image
The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry. — John Herschel Copy Share Image
