#probe

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#opinion #probes #social-science #understanding #wisdom

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#answer #epistemology #explorer #heart #inevitably

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#anyone #common #common denominator #denominator #fear

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely. ↗

— Willard Gaylin

#behavior #completely #define #distortion #exclusively

How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I can't get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. These scientists are American heroes. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#down #enough #fantastic #get #got

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. ↗

— William Albert Allard

#deeper #else #got #harder #looking

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful. ↗

— Pierre Curie

#deeply #harmful #here #into #knowledge

Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#encourage #people #probe #report #them

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#being #faultless #faults #good #good qualities

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#believers #bible #debate #demanding #earliest