Quotes about Inquiry

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Follow truth wherever it may lead you.

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 the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.

Question with boldness even the existence of God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Had I ever read the Life of St. Bernard by Dom Ailbe Luddy?—

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

What are you? Some kinda mermaid?" one man had shouted, and reached hurriedly for his socks.

The prosperity we enjoy shapes both the questions we ask and the answers we embrace.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?