Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.

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?'

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

I think like a detective.

Yes, but with the Cube there are many flashes, there are many aha's.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

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

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual horsepower and the ability to look at an issue and say something fresh.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other