Inquiries Quotes
43 quotes by 38 authors
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Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations…
— Oliver Heaviside
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That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments…
— Charles Babbage
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I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had…
— Toni Morrison
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Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique inquiries into trust fund…
— Joe Meno
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All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.
— Carl Sagan
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In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether…
— Hippocrates
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On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny…
— Gennifer Flowers
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The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions…
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have…
— Charles Babbage
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
— St. Jerome
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I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because…
— Will Rogers
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The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
— Edward Snowden
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With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips,…
— George Eliot
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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety,…
— A.C. Grayling
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It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important.…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Stop looking all over the place for "the answers" - whatever they are - and start looking for the questions - the inquiries which are…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these…
— Simon Greenleaf
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