Natural Questions Quotes

#1. The first one is always the hardest.

Cassandra Clare

#2. Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure or record about the natural world, it leaves more unanswered questions.

Robert Winston

#3. That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.

Haruki Murakami

#4. I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.

E. O. Wilson

#5. Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)

Colin Dexter

#6. Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion struggles with spiritual and ethical questions about the meaning and proper conduct of our lives. The facts of nature simply cannot dictate correct moral behavior or spiritual meaning.

Stephen Jay Gould

#7. We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from natural disasters that can't be anticipated.

Cass Sunstein

#8. America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin

H.W. Brands

#9. Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us survives.

Veronica Chambers

#10. There are more cells in your brain than there are brains in your entire body.

Richard Dawkins

#11. Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.

Amory Lovins

#12. Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Gerald Jampolsky

#13. No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly nothing but science. Perhaps another way to put this is that, although I think that knowledge is a natural kind, I don't think that philosophy is.

Hilary Kornblith

#14. I think it's possible to learn. The problem is that we learn so damned slowly, so that by the time you've realized something, it's too late.

Jo Nesbo

#15. Why was it so difficult to be absorbed in the most vital and, in a way, the most natural of all questions?

Jostein Gaarder

#16. All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an unanticipated phenomenon occurs again and again - finally turning into an expectation - then theories are overturned.

Stephen Jay Gould

#17. Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Sally Ride

#18. My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.

Michael Gove

#19. At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against? Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing

John Steinbeck

#20. Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

Terry Pratchett

#21. Questions are the natural agents of curiosity. To limit question is unnatural, against nature.

Ted Agon

#22. People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

Frederick Lenz

#23. Mathematical experiences for very young children should build largely upon their play and the natural relationships between learning and life in their daily activities, interests, and questions,

Ann-Marie Dibiase

#24. What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?

Seneca.

#25. Why do some men reach for the stars and so many others never even look up?

David McCullough

#26. Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Louis Pasteur

#27. She has the heart of a child, you know. Yeah, it's in a box beside her bed.
- Kaia Skyhawk

Gena Showalter

#28. I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and asking questions ... I'm actually able to perform a little bit.

Vinny Guadagnino

#29. The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.

Carl Jung

#30. Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.

Christof Koch

#31. Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

Thomas Jefferson