#question

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#everywhere #face #justify #questions #themselves

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#itself #method #nature #observe #our

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. ↗

— Carl Jung

#being #dealing #glows #gnaws #heart

Effective management always means asking the right question. ↗

— Robert Heller

#asking #effective #management #means #question

But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#changes #could #friction #heat #latent

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#asserts #brought #diminished #force #increased

If a faithful account was rendered of Man’s ideas upon Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word “gods” has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed; that he applies this term when the spring of the natural, the source of known causes, ceases to be visible: as soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his gods  …   When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon  …   does he, in fact, do any thing more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has been accustomed to listen with reverential awe? ↗

— Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach

#divinity #gods #ignorance #knowledge #materialism

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua? ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#bringing #contra #economic justice #government #had

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#answering #ask #beef #going #i

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#debate #debating #question #settle #settling