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"inquiry is fatal to certainty." »Will Durant
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"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." »Thomas Paine
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"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry." »Umberto Eco
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"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." »Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
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"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
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"Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way." »Hosea Ballou
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"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." »Isaac Asimov
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"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." »Albert Einstein, "Autobiographical Notes"
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"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
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"By six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object; trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe." »Arabic Proverb
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"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
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"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. 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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"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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