Logical Inquiry Quotes

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...

One way to solve a mystery is by asking the right questions until answers start to emerge.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself.

If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

She said she thought it [ letter "C"] meant alphabetical order. But nobody bothered to ask did she ever see an "A," a "B," a "D," or an "E." If I were cross-examining her I darn well would have asked her that question.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.