7 sentences with 'enquiry'

Example sentences and phrases with the word enquiry and other words derived from it.


« In 1743, he founded the American Philosophical Society to foster the spirit of enquiry. »
« Freemasons were a fraternal society that advocated the Enlightenment principles of enquiry and tolerance. »
« The scientific discoveries of the Renaissance were inspired by the same spirit of enquiry that Greek scientists and Roman engineers had cultivated. »
« When I was making an enquiry in a rural tax consultancy office, I was amazed at the speed with which one of the employees operated an old mechanical adding machine. »
« Instead, the importance of ancient Greek science lies in its spirit of rational enquiry, in the idea that the human mind can discover new things about the world through examination and consideration. »
« Using the power of the press, Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Voltaire questioned accepted knowledge and spread new ideas of openness, enquiry, and religious tolerance throughout Europe and America. »
« Kant's point was that, more than ever before, thinkers of various kinds were breaking new ground not only in the use of the scientific method to discover new things about the physical world, but in the application of rational enquiry to improve human life and the organisation of human society. »

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