#inquiry

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #inquiry




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

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.


Felicity Huffman


#definition #did #hearing #inquiry #into

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.


Michael Polanyi


#general #general public #imposing #inquiry #intrinsic

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.


John Polkinghorne


#because #every #everything #god #great

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.


Wilhelm Wundt


#class #concepts #descriptive #discussing #faculties

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.


Thomas Jefferson


#admit #any #bow #i #inquiry

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.


Edward Sapir


#huge #inquiry #interests #languages #national

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.


Percy Bysshe Shelley


#believe #both #cases #creed #ever

To deny the existence of a God and more specifically the Creator God of Christianity is not based upon a philosophical issue, but rather a moral one.


R. Alan Woods


#philosophical-inquiry #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

Teachers seeking to 'teach the controversy' over Darwinian evolution in today's climate will likely be met with false warnings that it is unconstitutional to say anything negative about Darwinian evolution. Students who attempt to raise questions about Darwinism, or who try to elicit from the teacher an honest answer about the status of intelligent design theory will trigger administrators' concerns about whether they stand in Constitutional jeopardy. A chilling effect on open inquiry is being felt in several states already, including Ohio. South Carolina, and Pennsylvania. [District Court] Judge Jones's message is clear: give Darwin only praise, or else face the wrath of the judiciary.


David K. DeWolf


#darwinism #evolution #id #intelligent-design #macro-evolution