#inquiry

A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#evolution #inquiry #life #science #study

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#establish #fruitful #give #great #inquiry

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#incentive #inquiry #leads #truth #way

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. ↗

— Aristotle

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Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded. ↗

— Patrick Wilson

#communication #connections #inquiry #libraries #understanding

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. ↗

— John Adams

#freedom-of-thought #scientific-inquiry #education

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

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

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The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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