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
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. — Marston Bates
Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question. — Elaine Dundon
At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation — Walter Rudolf Hess
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it. — Mao Zedong
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. — Philo
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer. — Jacob Bronowski
Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement. — Sun Tzu
Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one. — Krzysztof Kieslowski
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking. — Edward De Bono
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. — Claude Monet
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. — Denis Diderot
Short Probing Quotes
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. — Umberto Eco
NASA sends probe to Uranus, people everywhere giggle. — Colin Mochrie
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin. — Avital Ronell
What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen. — John Humphrys
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose. — Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems. — David Eagleman
[Donald] Trump not taking [hillary] Clinton probe off the table. — Rush Limbaugh
I had a probing mind and an elephant memory. — Ethel Waters
Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Probing Questions Quotes
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths. — Carl Sagan
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity. — Jean-Georges Noverre
We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day. — Bryant H. McGill
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. — Milan Kundera
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
Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if youre lucky, you get strange clues. — Lene
Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out. — Ali Vincent
This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding. — John Carroll
Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself. — Owen Gingerich
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply. — Reinhold Niebuhr
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. — Jimmy Carter
A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery. — Mary Faustina Kowalska
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. — Rod Serling
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
As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper. — Margaret Bourke-White
Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate. — Virgil
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" she would say. — Richard Saul Wurman
To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice. — Swami Vivekananda
Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply. — Lester Levenson
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it. — Susan Sontag
So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance. — Howard G. Hendricks
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did. — Steven Spielberg
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice. — Blaise Pascal
My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones. — Paul Klee
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. — Hubert Humphrey
We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it.... That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago. — Rose Bird
At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on. — Vance Packard
It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining — Lyndon B. Johnson
[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands. — Jim Morrison
True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior! — Watchman Nee
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
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her — George Bernard Shaw
Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is. — Ben Bradlee
Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder. — Bud Collins
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post. — Andrew Bacevich
If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. — Eric Idle
I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart. — Charles Krauthammer
Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results. — Donald Kennedy
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. — Gore Vidal
History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials." — Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself. — Pamela Stephenson
Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido. — William S. Burroughs
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