Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
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.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.
I've never done too much inquiry into angels.
Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.