The point that escapes the Pope is that the key ingredient in rational inquiry is skepticism, not faith.

As a social group in Western society, scientists have successfully identified themselves with the practice of rational and objective inquiry, but this situation need not go on indefinitely.

"That's your Catholicism speaking, not rational inquiry."

Unlike Hegel, Schelling did not believe that the absolute could be known in its true character through rational inquiry alone.

The rabbi's logical and rational inquiry is not mere logic-chopping.

Anaxagoras brought philosophy and the spirit of rational inquiry from Ionia to Athens.

The faculties requisite for rational inquiry are simply weakened by televised viewing.

The most important position that united the early deists was their call for "free rational inquiry" into all subjects, especially religion.

Mars seems to lie at some intersection of rational inquiry and wondering romance, which can by turns inspire hope or dread.

This is because he believes that life itself is, in the last analysis, deeply paradoxical, and not comprehensible through logical or rational inquiry.