#inquiry

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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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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.


Thomas Jefferson


#america #become #book #criminal #i

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

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'


Richard Whately


#anything #begin #believe #bring #difference

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

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.


Thomas Paine


#inquiry #only #shrinks #truth

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