The humanities help develop a critical, questioning attitude towards the world.
There is a beautiful, if slightly grisly, elegance to Herculano-Houzel's method and her work embodies the constantly questioning attitude that is what makes science so powerful.
He censored the questioning attitude and research priorities of the new French theology in his encyclical Humani generis ("Of the Human Race") and supported traditional teachings regarding marital relations and birth control.
As he grew, he displayed the same open, questioning attitude to life one sees in other geniuses who are always asking "why?" and "why not?" and driving normal people nuts.
Con Ed's internal report said that in restarting the reactor, pressure from supervisors to move quickly "may have led operators to reduce their questioning attitude and make them more willing to accept less-than-adequate conditions".
The questioning attitude that characterized the period is seen in the works of its great scientists and philosophers: Descartes's Discourse on Method (1637) and Pascal's Pensées (written 1657 58) in France; Bacon's Advancement of Learning (1605) and Hobbes's Leviathan (1651) in England.
Clough's deeply critical and questioning attitude made him as doubtful of his own powers as he was about the spirit of his age, and he gave his contemporaries the impression of promise unfulfilled, especially since he left the bulk of his verse unpublished.
As a professor at the University of Padua, Vesalius encouraged younger scientists to accept traditional anatomy only after verifying it themselves, and this more critical and questioning attitude broke Galen's authority and placed anatomy on a firm foundation of observed fact and demonstration.
