#inquiry

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And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.


Jean-Francois Lyotard


#answer #approach #choosing #ever #first

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.


Dmitri Mendeleev


#believe #free #human #inquiry #most

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.


Wilhelm Ostwald


#consideration #development #faced #field #first

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

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


Edward Sapir


#huge #inquiry #interests #languages #national

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.


Lewis Thomas


#could #day #due #encounter #entirely

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

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.


Cleveland Abbe


#employs #hypotheses #inquiry #never #points

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.


Richard Hofstadter


#being #center #character #criticism #else