A good education must expose knowledge gaps and increase the hunger for further inquiries. A good education is not complete.

— Magnus Nwagu Amudi

A grand and almost untrod den field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.

— Charles Darwin

All theology is a kind of birthday Each one who is born Comes into the world as a question For which old answers Are not sufficient…

— Thomas Merton

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

— Criss Jami

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

— Plato

Atheism is the default position in any scientific inquiry, just as aquarium or a-neutrinoism was. That is, any entity has to earn its admission into a scientific account either via direct evidence for its existence or because it plays some fundamental explanatory role. Before the theoretical need for neutrinos was appreciated (to preserve the conservation of energy) and then later experimental detection was made, they were not part of the accepted physical account of the world. To say physicists in 1900 were 'agnostic' about neutrinos sounds wrong: they just did not believe there were such things. As yet, there is no direct experimental evidence of a deity, and in order for the postulation of a deity to play an explanatory role there would have to be a lot of detail about how it would act. If, as you have suggested, we are not “good judges of how the deity would behave,” then such an unknown and unpredictable deity cannot provide good explanatory grounds for any phenomenon. The problem with the 'minimal view' is that in trying to be as vague as possible about the nature and motivation of the deity, the hypothesis loses any explanatory force, and so cannot be admitted on scientific grounds. Of course, as the example of quarks and neutrinos shows, scientific accounts change in response to new data and new theory. The default position can be overcome.

— Tim Maudlin

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

— Criss Jami

But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.

— Carl Sagan

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

— Edwin Hubble

Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the daily in his soul.

— Michael Bassey Johnson