92 Quotes About Inquiry

  • Author Aristotle
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    Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.

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  • Author Hannes Alfven
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    Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.

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  • Author Arthur Conan
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    They are mostly sent on by private inquiry agencies. They are all people who are in trouble about something, and want a little enlightening. I listen to their story, they listen to my comments, and then I pocket my fee.

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  • Author Morris Raphael Cohen
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    The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

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  • Author John Kenneth Galbraith
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    The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

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  • Author Joseph Glanvill
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    That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

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