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• It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?

  John Moffitt

  Giving Up, Our World, People

  "Quitting the N.F.L.: For John Moffitt, the Money Wasn’t Worth It" by Ken Belson, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2013.

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• If we analyse the supernova data by assuming the Copernican principle is correct and get out something unphysical, I think we should start questioning the Copernican principle…. Whatever our theoretical predilections, they will in the end have to give way to the observational evidence.

  George F. R. Ellis

  Thinking, Data, Giving

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• I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Writing, Thinking, Questions And Answers

  "An Enchanted Life: An Adept's Guide to Masterful Magick". Book by Patricia Telesco, November 1, 2001.

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• The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are always ready to improve our knowledge. Therefore a good scientist is never ‘certain’. Lack of certainty is precisely what makes conclusions more reliable than the conclusions of those who are certain: because the good scientist will be ready to shift to a different point of view if better elements of evidence, or novel arguments emerge. Therefore certainty is not only something of no use, but is in fact damaging, if we value reliability.

  Carlo Rovelli

  Doors, Views, Doubt

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• The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend.

  Mario Savio

  Mean, Years, Games

  "An End To History". Humanity magazine, www.historyisaweapon.com. December 1964.

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• Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.

  Carl Sagan

  Errors, Self Questioning, Criticism

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  Gabrielle Reece

  People, Athleticism, Femininity

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• The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a form of questioning.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Way, Form, Process

  Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is public. It is now considered dangerous because it has the potential to function as a site where a culture of questioning can operate, the imagination can blossom, and difficult questions can be openly debated and critically engaged.

  Henry Giroux

  Difficult Questions, Imagination, Culture

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away and forget about it, and I've done that with novels I've started and worked on for a long time. It's an option I need in order to write freely.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Book, Writing, Order

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Personally, I do not think that torture is necessary. But it may be the case that interrogation methods that go beyond questioning, but do not arise to the level of torture, may be necessary to get actionable intelligence from high-ranking al Qaeda leaders

  John Yoo

  Thinking, Leader, Levels

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.

  Shailene Woodley

  Strong, Love You, Thinking

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• Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Art, Winning, Thinking

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• Yes, actually I was pretty amazed by the amount of stuff my parents put up with while I was living in their house. They had experienced all that before with older brothers and sisters, so it was fairly strict. The fear-of-God thing was pretty set and I blindly followed it until I reached a certain age. Then I just began questioning my belief system.

  Rozz Williams

  Brother, House, Parent

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• For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

  Richard Hammond

  Thinking, Brain, Subjects

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill.

  Russ Feingold

  Strong, Issues, Reform

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• One cannot help but be in awe when
  [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity,
  of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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• Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

  Nancy Willard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Life, Wisdom, Men

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• What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

  Jonas Salk

  Thinking, Discovery, People

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• Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Courage, Science, Asking Questions

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Creativity, Knowledge, World

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• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

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• The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Thinking, Fog

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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