#inquiry

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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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

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

— Edward Sapir

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To deny the existence of a God and more specifically the Creator God of Christianity is not based upon a philosophical issue, but rather a moral one. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

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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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I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Edward Jenner

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A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#evolution #inquiry #life #science #study

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

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Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction. ↗

— Roy Romer

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The controversy between Darwinism and intelligent design has the characteristics of major scientific revolutions in the past. Darwinists are losing power because they treat with contempt the very people on whom they depend the most: American taxpayers. The outcome of this scientific revolution will be decided by young people who have the courage to question dogmatism and follow the evidence wherever it leads. ↗

— Jonathan Wells

#darwinism #evolution #id #intelligent-design #macro-evolution