#inquiry

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

#consideration #development #faced #field #first

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

— Edward Sapir

#huge #inquiry #interests #languages #national

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

#philosophical-inquiry #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law. ↗

— Jack Cade

#bishops #blame #found #gentlemen #guilty

We might begin by scanning our body . . . and then asking, "What is happening?" We might also ask, "What wants my attention right now?" or, "What is asking for acceptance? ↗

— Tara Brach

#life

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#aspirations #began #book #child #done

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#after #dared #every #far #i

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#denied #door #doubt #inquiry #window

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

— Alfred Korzybski

#disclosures #inquiry #made #mankind #our

Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#expects #explore #go #inquiry #investigation