“Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation.” MayProblemResultsKnownPiecesMysteryBuiltLogicMathematicsSolveProofCertaintyUncertaintyIslandsReasoningIngredientsSpeculationOntologyTheoremsUnanswered QuestionsUnanswered Author:Ivars Peterson
“Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.” MayProblemNaturalDealsEnvironmentFailingEvolutionBirdResourcesPopulationSolveSelectionNatural SelectionBeavers Book:THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE Source: THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE
“Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.” MayWaitingLifetimePerseveranceSolvePersistenceMeaning Of LifeHarvestPlowing Author:Joan D. Chittister