A Quote by J. Arthur Thomson
There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.
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Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations.
Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.
Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.
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 how to tell the exercises apart from the research problems, and he replied: "If you can solve it, it is an exercise; otherwise it's a research problem."
The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science.
Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation.
People are used to seeing natural history programmes that have been filmed over many years which are concentrated, focused visions of natural history.
It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."
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