Areas Quote by George Porter

“A problem is a solution yet to be discovered”

— Marc Torra

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

— Albert Einstein

From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might…

— Victor Francis Hess

“Reaction without analysis and understanding will almost always result in an inadequate solution.”

— Grant Lichtman

Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.

— Tony Robbins

In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the…

— E. O. Wilson

Everyone knows we take our time. We're really trying to be responsible with ourselves in trying to discover ideas that haven't been discovered before.…

— Justin Chancellor

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

— Edward de Bono

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

— Michael Polanyi

If we rush too quickly to be scientific, to begin our experiment or catch our criminal as soon as possible, we risk never getting…

— Maria Konnikova

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to…

— Vannevar Bush