Torsten Wiesel Quotes

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

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're a very difficult person, and we were having trouble answering your questions. Why are you asking so many questions?'

To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision.

I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.

I cannot look at a question and not try to find the answer, even if I don't know it.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

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?

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don't have the cast of mind, you're destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.

Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

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.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

To ask the proper question is half of knowing.

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.