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“Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”

Helping Problem Science Used Difficult Understanding Simple Mathematics Method Seeking Characteristics Physicist Difficult Problems Seeking Help

Author:John von Neumann

“All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.”

Life Trying Problem Science Joy Nature Answers Half Sea Sky Flower Hair Mountain Bird Mark Grass Feathers Joy Of Life Petals Mammals Interrogation Solved Problems Sea And Sky

Author:J. Arthur Thomson

“There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.”

Problem Science Natural Counting Natural History Unsolved Problems

Author:J. Arthur Thomson

“Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.”

Whole Problem Action Science Related Biology Genes Probability Protein Synthesis

Author:Francis Crick

“If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.”

Source: Advice for a Young Investigator

“Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.”

“Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude-that moment being the tail end of the go-go '80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere.”

“It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.”

Problem Body Science Movement Planets Concerned Appearance Wander Heavenly Uniforms Plato Supposition Heavenly Bodies

Author:Plato

“I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.”

Thinking Problem Science Natural Ought Scripture Experiments Discussion Demonstration

Author:Galileo Galilei

“New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.”

World Ideas Whole Moments Problem Body Inspiration Science Community Struggle Spring Lonely Accounts Inspired Whole World Organized Researchers

Author:Max Planck

“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.”

Problem Science Answers Modern Conversation Servant Modern Science Flair

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.”

Reason Problem Science Principles Intellectual Filled Complexes Stores Rational Subtle Devices Incapable Rational Thought Complex Problems

Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

Ifs Problem Science Knowledge Ignorance Intelligence Solve Stupidity Thrive Problem Solving Rationality Knowledge And Ignorance Understanding Knowledge

Book:Asimov's New guide to science

Source: Asimov's New guide to science

“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”

Writing May Problem Science Fiction Solutions Science Fiction Inevitable Catastrophe Fiction Writers

Author:Isaac Asimov