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It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves. James Payn

Class First Before Extraordinary Considerable Our Inquiry Entertained Must Be Careful Cases Various Point First Place Opinions How Pinch Very Quite Place Them Persons Themselves Who Eliminate Careful

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer. Jean-Francois Lyotard

Today Will First Society Approach Inquiry About More Take Involves Knowing First Of All Answer How Than Means Choosing Ever Necessarily

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry. Joseph Glanvill

Matters Humane Our Inquiry Though Possibility Absolute Remains Mistaken Still Infallibility Being Certain Certainty Many Belief Things

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. Kenneth G. Wilson

Nature Understanding Inquiry More Scientist Causes Providing Ever Things Extensive

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile. Lewis Thomas

Time Good Day Stupidity Mistakes Lost Consider Hundred Hundred Times Once Inquiry Worthwhile Entirely Something Week Could Open New Most Makes Due Line New Line Surprising Encounter Lots Up Times Labs Unexpected Worked Really Turns Whole

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate. Martin Chalfie

Starts Inquiry See More Investigate Observation Scientific

There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together. Max Richter

I've never done too much inquiry into angels. Misha Collins

Too Much Too Inquiry Angels Never Done Much

Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why? Nick Davies

News World Law Suppressed Worrying Evidence Press Inquiry Broke Has-Been Something Misled Concealed Know Dealing Yard Affair Been Very Scotland Going Short Information Public Cut Original Now Why

It is my idea that the public needs to be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry and how the scientific process works. I firmly believe that this is the only effective way forward to combat the widespread distrust in facts and science. Priyamvada Natarajan

Needs Nature Science Better Believe Way Inquiry Distrust About Only Facts Firmly Idea Combat Scientific How Educated Effective Effective Way Process Public Forward Works Widespread

It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement. R. J. Cutler

Approach Way Inquiry Finding Some Always Go Surprised Questions Curiosity Preconceived Preconceived Notion Paths Engagement Notion Thesis Filmmaker

Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history. Richard Ben-Veniste

History Will Broad Complete Our Thorough Inquiry Investigation Well Withstand Provide Provides Conduct Very Authority Scrutiny Us Basically

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?' Richard Whately

Truth Believe Inquiry All The Difference He Almost Almost Anything Himself Makes End Begin May Difference Anything Whether Inclined Bring

There is no question that Darren Wilson caused the death of Michael Brown by shooting him, but the inquiry does not end there. The law authorizes a law enforcement officer to use deadly force in certain situations. The law allows all people to use deadly force to defend themselves in certain situations. Robert P. McCulloch

Death People Law Inquiry All People Wilson Law Enforcement Brown No Question Force Him Deadly Does Caused Question End Michael Michael Brown Officer Shooting Situations Themselves Enforcement Certain Use Defend

It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance. Robert Shapiro

There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that. Robert Urich

Inquiry About Bette Week New Just Want Show Last

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters. Ruth Ozeki

Good You Writing Beginning Inquiry Characters Spirit Rather Write Had Go Than In The Beginning Them Prejudices Novels Start

There is much in the result of John Chilcot's seven-year inquiry into the decision-making that led to Britain's involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq that can be cited to excuse headlines that refer to his findings as 'scathing' and 'damning.' Terry Glavin

Result Damning Inquiry Cited John Invasion Headlines Excuse Involvement Refer His Led Iraq Decision-Making Much Britain

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry. In other words, perhaps 'photography,' as a meaningful cultural trope, is over. Trevor Paglen

Photography Words Practice Become Sense Field Think Other Inquiry About Longer Over Perhaps Makes Cultural Discreet In Other Words Meaningful

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development. Wilhelm Ostwald

Will First Field Consideration Immediately Inquiry Faced General Scheme Development Particular Within Occupied Scientific Stages Realized Position

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. Wilhelm Wundt

Class Stage Our Statement Inquiry Significance Mental General Faculties Concepts Discussing Psychology Them Us Descriptive Present Belonging Necessity

I had no lasting physical trauma nor a psychological one. Yet, it was hard to return to the old path. I found myself asking big questions: Why was my life spared? What is my purpose here? And it led me to a life of inquiry. Yossi Ghinsberg

Life Myself Me Path Old My Life Big Lasting Inquiry Physical Purpose Had Return Nor Led Questions Big Questions Psychological Spared Asking Hard Trauma Found Why Here

I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writers who recognized the difference between the hard research of journalism and the kind of inquiry of mind that characterizes the essay. John D'Agata

Mind Few Research Mine Inquiry Rules Recognized Kind Thousand Thousand Years Rather Writers Journalism Between Genre Were Years Existed Heard Essay Essayist Difference Established Working Hard Who Ever

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