Charles Henry Parkhurst Quotes

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

I always look for a challenge. Maybe it's part of my mentality to create something special.

My experience in government is there is a whole host of unintended consequences you have to think through. I can't un-know that, I find it harder now to offer simple solutions.

I just like the obstacle course of figuring out something.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.

The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require new ways of seeing. As Einstein put it, 'The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.'

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

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

A Problem Is really just a solution in need of a reason to exist.

If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.