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The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.
As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.
Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that.
Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.
The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.
Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.
I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.
Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
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.
One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.
Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.
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.
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion
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.
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.
Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.