Dylan Thomas
Poet, Writer
"I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me."
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Enquiry
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Socrates
Philosopher
"The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
Socrates
Philosopher
"Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."
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"The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so"
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"Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily constituted one of the chief practical interests of mankind."
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