Inquiry Quotes

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I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world… — Byron Katie
There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake… — Byron Katie
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place… — Thomas Jefferson
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent… — Charles Sanders Peirce
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief… — John Dewey
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its… — Louis Kronenberger
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking,… — James Clerk Maxwell
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating… — Aristotle
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and… — Wernher von Braun
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of… — Adolphe Quetelet
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines… — Hannes Alfven
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual… — Walter Karp
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and… — William Buckland
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of… — John Gorrie
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as… — John Constable
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature… — Herbert Turnbull
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been… — Aristotle

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