Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

- Ayad Akhtar

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

- Cleveland Abbe

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

- E. O. Wilson

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

- Edward Sapir

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

- Hosea Ballou

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

- Henry James Sumner Maine

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

- Katie Hafner

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

- Kenneth G. Wilson

I've never done too much inquiry into angels.

- Misha Collins

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

- Martin Chalfie

There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that.

- Robert Urich

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

- Thomas Jefferson

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

- Thomas Paine

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

- Will Durant

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.

- Wilhelm Ostwald