C. S. Lewis Quotes

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.

Science is evidence-based and provides a continuing understanding of complex natural phenomena. Our understanding is constantly evolving and continually improving.

Instinct is still important, but now I can easily identify problems like cliches and mixed metaphors, and I have a broader palette to work off of.

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.

Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.

Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

Reasons come first. Answers come second

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the application of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems. It sometimes almost seems as if the techniques of science were more easily learnt than the thinking that shows us what the problems are and how to approach them.

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

When you have a problem, the first thing to do in addressing it is to honestly identify it.

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.