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Quotes About Problem

with its head under its wing. I was so sorry, yet so glad. 'For us, the living, the problem is of a totally different order: how to harness time in the cultivation of a style of heart — something like that?
~ Lawrence Durrell
One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
~ Stephen Hawking
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
~ David Hilbert
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.
~ Albert Einstein
If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.
~ Peter Debye
Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.
~ Earl Wilson
Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.
~ Torsten Wiesel
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.
~ Hans Reichenbach
It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
~ William Golding
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
~ Lord Kelvin
Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
~ Thomas Nagel
Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.
~ Noam Chomsky
modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.
~ Fran Lebowitz
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.
~ Maria Goeppert Mayer
In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.
~ Robin Wasserman, Crashed
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.
~ Stephen D. Cox
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
~ Thom Mayne
I don't understand racism. I have many black friends and many others have been my opponents. Respect is basic. Unfortunately racism is a social problem, and football belongs to society.
~ Francesco Totti
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
~ Judith Light
Instead of throwing traps into
~ Aaron Williams