"An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities, a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity." (Howard W Eves)
"Finding the right answer is important, of course. But more important is developing the ability to see that problems have multiple solutions, that getting from X to Y demands basic skills and mental agility, imagination, persistence, patience." (Mary H Futrell)
"I knew nothing, except how to think, how to grapple with a problem and then go on grappling with it until you had solved it." (Sir Barnes Wallis)
"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer." (Albert Einstein)
"Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problems begin, and then to take his stand within the limits of the intelligible." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice." (George Polya)
"The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying." (Jean Dieudonne)
"The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems." (Charles W Churchman)
"The real raison d’etre for the mathematician’s existence is simply to solve problems. So what mathematics really consists of is problems and solutions." (John Casti)
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." (Buckminster Fuller)
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