Quotes About Problems

Well, anyway," Joey went on blithely, "few years ago this guy calls me up. 'Joey,' he says, 'I got big problems. The vacation market is in the shits, I can't pay my mortgage. What should I do?' I say, 'How about you put some fucking pants on and get a job?' He says, 'I have no pants.' I say, 'I'll buy you some.' 'No,' he says. 'Fuck pants.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos never rest.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.

Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

Circular reasoning is infallible even if not exactly logical, and this is why so many of us so often resort to it—not so much to resolve baffling problems, but to be absolved of the obligation to worry about them.

As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

If your spouse is collaborating with you, you both might want to start with making changes in communication (Chapters 14 and 15), reducing anger (Chapter 17), and introducing new methods of solving problems (Chapter 16). If you are able to cooperate to determine more precisely what your spouse legitimately wants or doesn't want, likes or dislikes, you are in a better position to make those changes (Chapters 12 and 16).

Theology starts with dogmas, philosophy begins with problems. Philosophy sees the problem first, theology has the answer in advance

philosophy of religion comes into being when both religion and philosophy claim to offer ideas about ultimate problems.