of Inquiry
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. V. S. Naipaul
It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries. Edward Gibbon
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics. Josiah Willard Gibbs
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion? Oliver Heaviside
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. Ptolemy
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. Horace