Maimonides Quotes

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

There's no such thing as saying that we'll ever find the ultimate cause of stuff. We can only work to push our understanding one step further.

The simple questions are always the hardest ones.

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.

No one-liner can ever be optimal.

Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

Some things weren't designed to understand.

There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.