Unconstrained Inquiry Quotes

I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers—at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

I believe a journalist needs to be free to ask the questions he or she deems relevant, without constraints from others.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and of no age …