Age Quote by Peter Medawar

Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or piffling answers.…

— Peter Medawar

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

— Andrew Carnegie

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

— David Sedaris

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

— Chuck Close

Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just…

— Thomas Kuhn

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

— Anonymous

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

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

— David Deutsch

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

— Abraham Flexner

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

To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

— Eric S. Raymond

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

— Anonymous