Quotes About Puzzle

He always puzzled me —except when I had him in my arms.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.

Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"

It doesn't matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?... Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223... And pray, why would this number interest us? It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.

Einstein once wrote, "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

Really, it's just a question of reassembling the components in the correct sequence...

Martin Flanery,

find the box.

One can argue, why not simply give the solution; why go through the trouble of creating a puzzle? Ancient Hindus believed, wisdom must never be given. It has to be taken. And

Where the beginning begins, there our thinking stops; there it comes to an end.121

No one knows how the chimp got the revolver.

Kestrel Call ME a CAB by Donald E. Westlake

There lived ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown

Have you got an idea about this case, Leroy?" "No," mumbled Encyclopedia. Mrs. Brown looked hurt. She had come to expect her son to solve a case before dessert.