Enquiry famous quotes

In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.
-- A.J. Ayer

#Philosophy #Character #Enquiry

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

#Science #Would Be #Enquiry

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
-- Bridget Riley

#Artist #Enquiry #Patterns

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.
-- Bridget Riley

#Keys #Law #Enquiry

We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.
-- Douglas Harding

#Self #Oneness #Enquiry

Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality, and who are the constituted guardians of religion. Enquiry, it seems, suits not them. They have drawn the line, beyond which human reason shall not pass -- above which human virtue shall not aspire! All that is without their faith or above their rule, is immorality, is atheism, is -- I know not what.
-- Frances Wright

#Challenges #Atheism #Enquiry

A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.
-- Fritjof Capra

#Pages #Enquiry #Records

The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
-- James Hutton

#Enquiry #Ends #Results

The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.
-- Lady Jane Grey

#Prayer #Enquiry #May

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
-- Max Planck

#Enquiry #Foundation #Essentials

The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be — this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.
-- Parmenides

#Thinking #Path #Enquiry

The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
-- Saint Basil

#Children #Nice #Enquiry

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?
-- Tom Holt

#Giving #Enquiry #Banging

Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’ To do with our enterprise? To do with this voyage?’ Perhaps not quite directly.
-- Patrick O'Brian

#Important #Enquiry #Voyages