Sentence examples for pure inquiry from inspiring English sources
In his book Descartes: The Project of Pure Inquiry (1978), Williams gave a compelling description of the ideal of objectivity in science, which he called the "absolute conception" of reality.
Finally, much attention has been devoted to several dreams Descartes reportedly had as a young man and that according to his biographer Adrien Baillet (1691) embodied the theoretical doubts and the project of pure inquiry he later developed in the Discourse and Meditations (see also Leibniz 1880: IV; Cole 1992; Keefer 1996).
Pure inquiry reveals the insubstantiality of the perceived "me" that needs protection and completion.
The inner incompleteness we experience calls us deeper into ourselves through pure inquiry.
Stephen inspires people with the excitement and importance of pure scientific inquiry, and celebrating his 70th birthday with him gives us a chance to say how much we honour him for it.
Last month the president of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, contributed a stirring essay to The Times regretting that educational institutions did not make stronger efforts to assert the fundamental values of pure intellectual inquiry while "the world indulged in a bubble of false prosperity and excessive materialism".
Increasingly, academic medical researchers are for hire, and research, once a pure activity of inquiry, is now a tool for promoting products.
Such pure and unsullied inquiry has yielded thousands of valuable byproducts, including antibiotics, vaccinations, X-rays and insulin therapy.
Some might even argue that the overall dependency that outsourcing creates for higher education on commercial services is inimical to the role that higher education plays in American and global society as a principal source of free inquiry and pure innovation.
"By honest introspection, by following one line of inquiry which is pure experience," one can reach an understanding of consciousness, he said.
Sepp said a later International Olympic Committee inquiry into Hayatou was pure hypocrisy.
