| "inquiry is fatal to certainty." »Will Durant |
| "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry." »Umberto Eco |
| "A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." »Richard Hofstadter |
| "Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way." »Hosea Ballou |
| "A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." »Isaac Asimov |
| "I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light." »Isaac Newton |
| "What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer." »Bertrand Russell |
| "It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty." »Albert Einstein |
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