#solution

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#billion #four #infinity #know #mathematicians

And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress. ↗

— Leonard Woodcock

#because #catch #cost #first #general

Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#courage #faith #fear #hinderances #lack-of-faith

I hold my finger up to his lips. He flicks his eyes down to look at it. "You're absolved," I tell him. He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me. So I put it in his language. "You're free. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

#freedom #letting-go #dreams

Always face the sunshine and you will never see the shadow. ↗

— Navjotsingh Sidhu

#life #solutions #life

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution. ↗

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

#arrange #compelling #could #discover #enough

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#beholden #congress #corporate #corporate interests #damaged

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#class #created #doctrine #how #know

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#any #attempt #committee #design #education

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#aggression #bomb #communists #drawn #frankly