9 quotes found
“Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.”
“...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the heavens... and everything below the earth... must...”
“When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.”
“As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.”
“All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient”
“If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully...”
“An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.”
“Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, ...”