Quotes About Conundrum

Another fine mess you've gotten me into.

Mystery is essential, they say. Mystery. Well, I was in one of those right now, and I couldn't say that I liked it very much.

he presented me with a mathematical conundrum," he said. "It's a famous one, the P = NP problem. Basically, it asks whether it's more difficult to think of the solution to a problem yourself or to ascertain if someone else's answer to the same problem is correct.

Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?

Leibniz in this respect had perhaps even less caution than many of his contemporaries, for he seriously considered whether the infinite series 1 -1+1-1+... was equal to 1/2.

Add another piece to the puzzle." "Am I really such a puzzle?" "Yes, but I've always enjoyed puzzles.

Ay, there's the rub,

No language that I knew had any words to describe him.

Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.

An insolubility is not a problem.

Betwixt the devil and the deap sea.

In that moment I began to see that there are times when there is no best choice. There is only this choice and that choice, and both are terrible.

He's a conundrum- and there's still a piece missing from the puzzle. Whatever that piece was, there was a part of me telling me not to get involved- that it was too much to handle. That you shouldn't go out on a limb unless you're absolutely sure the limb can support your weight.

How can you choose the lesser of two evils, when both evils are too great to measure?

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

Charlotte MacLeod

A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22.

It's so damn complex. If you ever think you have the solution to this, you're wrong and you're

I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

Sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

Mystery is not profoundness.

If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.