Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through scientificethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of research that can be done in those areas.
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas. They do not happen with a naked brain going out and encountering a nonhuman world. And the better we understand ourselves, the better we can do science, as well. So I don't see them - the sciences and the humanities - as being at all different.
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.
There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more. They've just discovered a significant violation of the German Constitution that had been concealed from the Parliament.
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself,. . . [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.
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.
Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.
Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.
Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will bring something of this approach not only to other fields of knowledge but to the conduct of his daily life.
A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.