Age Quote by Peter Medawar

It can be said with complete confidence that any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull…

— Peter Medawar

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

— Philip Emeagwali

“Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer.”

— David Sedaris

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the…

— Henry Tizard

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

— Abraham Flexner

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.

— Richard Dawkins

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

The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.

— Andrew Carnegie

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be…

— George Polya

Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.

— George M. Whitesides

In science it is not enough to think of an important problem on which to work. It is also necessary to know the means…

— Leo Szilard

“Why does something scientific have to be boring and annoying..”

— Anonymous