What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
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.
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that the impersonal physical world can be subjected to experimental enquiry. Yet science and theology have this in common, that each can be, and should be defended as being investigations of what is, the search for increasing verisimilitude in our understanding of reality.
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.
To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment two types of such machines may eventually be evolved: one, which may be termed the soaring type, and which will carry but a single operator, and another, likely to be developed somewhat later, which may be termed the journeying type, to carry several passengers, and to be provided with a motor.
Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence. . . it is convenient to group design into three simple categories, though the distinctions are in no way absolute, nor are they always so described: product design (things), environment design (places) and communication design (messages).
Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
Life without enquiry is not worth living.
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature. . . Observation is considered the key to natural science.
A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations.
The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all. . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.
I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.
We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.
