"It is an outcome of faith that nature - as she is perceptible to our five senses - takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle." (Albert Einstein)
"Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man." (Maria Goeppert-Mayer)
"Science is a game - but a game with reality, a game with
sharpened knives [..] If a man cuts a picture carefully into 1000 pieces, you
solve the puzzle when you reassemble the pieces into a picture; in the success
or failure, both your intelligences compete. In the presentation of a
scientific problem, the other player is the good Lord. He has not only set the
problem but also has devised the rules of the game - but they are not
completely known, half of them are left for you to discover or to deduce. The
experiment is the tempered blade which you wield with success against the
spirits of darkness - or which defeats you shamefully. The uncertainty is how
many of the rules God himself has permanently ordained, and how many apparently
are caused by your own mental inertia, while the solution generally becomes
possible only through freedom from its limitations." (Erwin Schrödinger)
"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity." (Douglas Horton)
"Throughout science there is a constant alternation between periods when a particular subject is in a state of order, with all known data falling neatly into their places, and a state of puzzlement and confusion, when new observations throw all neatly arranged ideas into disarray." (Sir Hermann Bondi)
"While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what anyone man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician." (Sir Arthur C Doyle)
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