...You know something, don't you?"
"I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific."
"Just answer the question."
"True/false or multiple choice?
Tags: choice inquiry true false question need answer something know lot specific multiple
As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?
Criss JamiTags: truth thinking learning questioning writing philosophy time inquiry maturity beliefs legacy development
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom science imagination intelligence education knowledge questions history philosophy children humility curiosity uncertainty inquiry theology challenge not-knowing
You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man...
Richard WrightTags: inquiry repentance decency gratefulness
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 and in the order that they happened.
Ford Madox FordReligion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends the conversation. It cuts off inquiry: not only factual inquiry, but moral inquiry. Because God's law trumps human law, people who think they're obeying God can easily get cut off from their own moral instincts.
And these moral contortions don't always lie in the realm of theological game-playing. They can have real-world consequences: from genocide to infanticide, from honor killings to abandoned gay children, from burned witches to battered wives to blown-up buildings.
Tags: morality ethics delusion inquiry superstition genocide terrorism unknowable infanticide untestable cop-out undetectable
All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.
Carl SaganTags: science knowledge inquiry carl-sagan
The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty damn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty — some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain. Now, we scientists are used to this, and we take it for granted that it is perfectly consistent to be unsure, that it is possible to live and not know. But I don’t know whether everyone realizes this is true. Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question — to doubt — to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.
Richard P. FeynmanTags: science doubt progress knowledge inquiry scientific-method
When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.
Jaak PankseppTags: science learning inquiry
We might begin by scanning our body . . . and then asking, "What is happening?" We might also ask, "What wants my attention right now?" or, "What is asking for acceptance?
Tara BrachTags: inquiry
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