Exception Quote by Denis Diderot

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each…

— Aristotle

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

— Carl Sagan

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

— Annabelle Selldorf

To properly investigate a subject, we must investigate a subject's stuff.

— Lisa Lutz

“There is no formula that can deliver all truth, all harmony, all simplicity. No Theory of Everything can ever provide total insight. For, to…

— John D. Barrow

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood,…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

— Sergio De La Pava

“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”

— Albert Einstein

It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There…

— Jennifer Nettles

I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For…

— Gottfried Leibniz

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

— Thomas Huxley