inquiries quotes

It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).

- Edward Gibbon
Memoirs of My Life (published1796), ch.4.

[Jeremy] Bentham held no post at the mercy of bankers and tripe sellers; he was a man of independent means, a lawyer and politician and a heretic in general practice. It is impossible to imagine such a man occupying a chair at Harvard or Princeton.Hehad a hand intoomany pies; he was too rebellious and contumacious; he had too little respect for authority, either academic or worldly. Moreover, his mind was too wide for a professor; he Mencken could never remain safely in a groove; the whole field of social organization invited his inquiries and experiments.

- H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
  'The Dismal Science', in The Smart Set,  Jun.

   There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant 'to be known', that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

- Carl Edward Sagan
  Broca's Brain.