Quotes for All
I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great. Edwin Land
The book Dynamic Programming by Richard Bellman is an important, pioneering work in which a group of problems is collected together at the end of some chapters under the heading “Exercises and Research Problems,” with extremely trivial questions appearing in the midst of deep, unsolved problems. It is rumored that someone once asked Dr. Bellman … Read more
We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don’t know. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don’t know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God … Read more
Although the cooking of food presents some unsolved problems, the quick warming of cooked food and the thawing of frozen food both open up some attractive uses. … There is no important reason why the the housewife of the future should not purchase completely frozen meals at the grocery store just as she buys quick … Read more
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. Carl Pomerance
The child knows only that he engages in play because it is enjoyable. He isn’t aware of his need to play–a need which has its source in the pressure of unsolved problems. Nor does he know that his pleasure in playing comes from a deep sense of well-being that is the direct result of feeling … Read more
Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks. Bruno Bettelheim
All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has… strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass the benzene ring of their tyrosin unbroken and how and where the peculiar chemical change from tyrosin to homogentisic acid is brought about, remain unsolved problems. Archibald Garrod
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems – they love a challenge. Andrew Wiles