#inquiry

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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.


Alfred Korzybski


#disclosures #inquiry #made #mankind #our

It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.


James Payn


#before #careful #cases #class #considerable

God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.


Christopher Hitchens


#free-inquiry #humanism #science #faith

Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.


Ozzie Zehner


#philosophical #science #truth #science

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.


Criss Jami


#certain #certainty #challenge #challenging #children

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.


Richard Dawkins


#blind faith #discouraging #expedient #faith #inquiry

Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history.


Richard Ben-Veniste


#basically #broad #complete #conduct #history

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.


E. O. Wilson


#close #confuse #doors #extent #further

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.


Kenneth G. Wilson


#ever #extensive #inquiry #into #more

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.


Ambrose Bierce


#characters #designed #formal #inquiry #judges