Inquiry Process Quotes

The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Investigation is never complete.

Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

I asked for more information because I am unable to unscrew the inscrutable.

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.

People ask me so many questions.

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.

When you ask the best questions of yourself and others, you invite the best answers.

That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

We´re opening a process against 15% of Congress members. I wonder if in any other part of the world such a massive inquiry in democracy has taken place. This means we´re beginning an in depth cleaning operation to recover the prestige of the Brazilian Legislative which has never had its image so tarnished.