Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
What worries you masters you.
There's a 50 percent chance of anything - either it happens or it doesn't.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
So many men so many questions.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
[Hypothesis] Something murdered by facts.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
No answer is also an answer.
Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have a single answer.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
One good thing about my computer: it never asks why.
Genius sees the answer before the question.
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken.
One solution to one problem makes two problems.
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.
America is the only country in the world where the poor have a parking problem.
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
When you are solving a problem, don't worry. Now, after you have solved the problem, then that's the time to worry.
Don't tell God how big your problems are... tell your problems how big your God is.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your life.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
It always helps to know the answer when you are working toward the solution of a problem.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking [...] the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticism.
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
