Philip Emeagwali Quotes

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

All problems are finally scientific problems.

I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and find the 'right' answer, like solving a mathematic equation.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

I have a very linear mind.

I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.

I watch games a little differently, maybe, than other people do, because I'm constantly asking myself why did that happen, what's really going on here?

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

Approximating involves making a series of educated guesses systematically by partitioning the problem into manageable chunks, identifying assumptions, and then using your general knowledge of the world to fill in the blanks.

We can see what works in one part of the world and one market, and we can share that knowledge and expertise with markets that are facing challenges.

I'm a common sense person who tries to analyze and I have to look at all sides of the issue because you don't want software that only does something but doesn't fix the other errors.

If you go deep into a problem, you'll find most all of the time that there are yet more problems to be solved from the ground up.

I see myself as a problem solver, creating solutions.

Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.

An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.