The study of life entails inquiry into many different facets of existence, from behavior and development to anatomy and physiology to taxonomy, ecology, and evolution.
Dr Stone said Lord Macpherson told him that, of all the things he had done in his life, that inquiry was the most important.
And while intuitive ideas are sufficient for the purposes of everyday life, scientific inquiry naturally demands more rigorous methods for capturing and expressing ideas.
For Hogben, as for Haldane, consciousness is seen as an integral part of the problem of life, "an inquiry into the nature of life and the nature of consciousness presupposes the necessity of formulating the problem in the right way" (Hogben 1930, pp. 31 32).
Sir Alistair Graham, chairman of the committee on standards in public life, said inquiries had found that the perception of Labour cronyism was incorrect.
He had devoted two years of his life to his inquiry, and concluded that he had failed.
Through processes well-documented by scientific inquiry, life began and evolved by natural selection over millions of years right up until today.
The production or importation of cosmetics containing microbeads should immediately be halted in order to protect vulnerable marine life, a Senate inquiry has recommended.
The human services minister is fighting for his political life as an inquiry into whether he breached ministerial standards during the August 2014 trip is due to wrap up.
With such creatures apparently on the verge of extinction, there could hardly be a better time for this report, a book that's as much an elegy for a way of life as an inquiry into "taste", its declared purpose.
