Inquiry Quotes - Page 7

Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.

So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry. A stepping-stone version of prior true belief seems reasonable, though perhaps we should accept only an even weaker view: a stepping-stone version of roughly-accurate beliefs.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).

Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.

Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.

The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of research that can be done in those areas.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.

My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.

Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are.

In shows where the audience wants to try to understand the work, the work is placed in a space of possibility where it becomes a subject of inquiry rather than being subject to conclusive interpretations. This is the gift I receive when I go abroad.

I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.

To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

Begin and you're halfway there.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.