Anton Pannekoek Quotes

In human affairs the solution to every problem contains within it the seeds of a new problem.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

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

Any study of a society shows that every solution creates a new situation which breeds its own new needs and problems, new demands.

It is one thing to diagnose a problem; it is another to resolve it.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

If you don’t understand how problems came to be, how are you going to know how to fix them?

If answers to our national problems were [readily] available we would not have to spend all our time talking about them.

Each success buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

Complexity and innovation are not always good things.

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.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that.

No solution can be more elegant than the problem at which it is aimed allows.

Are our problems moving faster than our ability to solve them?

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble

A lot of the ideas for solving many of our problems are already in place, but ideas don’t travel.

Most problems do not get solved. They get superseded by other concerns.

We shall either find a way or make one.

Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances … created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.

Every problem we have in this country we created and we can fix it.

The only stupidities that are not easily solved are those created by very intelligent men.