Quotes about Inquiry

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.

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

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.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.

Enquiring minds want to know.

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?

Watchman, what of the night?

Is Saul also among the prophets?