Inquiry Quotes

332 Inquiry quotes by 238 unique authors

Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was… — Seth Shostak
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. — Jill Lepore
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry. — B.F. Skinner
There is no question that Darren Wilson caused the death of Michael Brown by shooting him, but the inquiry does not end there. The law… — Robert P. McCulloch
It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary… — Levi Woodbury
Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people… — Ha-Joon Chang
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children. — Richard Flanagan
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. — William Winwood Reade
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as… — Joseph Howe
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. — John Barton
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. — John Barton
Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field… — Wilhelm Ostwald
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there… — Simon Greenleaf
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first… — James Payn
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific… — Michael Polanyi
And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human. — Ayad Akhtar
In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without… — William Booth
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. — Albert Einstein
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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