Quotes about Inquiry

Science should be the search for truth, not merely the search for materialistic explanations.

Godly teachers encourage questions; those who demand unthinking agreement have something to hide.

can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. 'Go on with the next verse.' 'But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. 'How could he turn them out with his nose, you know?' 'It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the subject. 'Go on with the next verse,' the

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.