Partial Solutions Quotes

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

We keep saying, 'No more 'band aid' solutions.'

Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything, partial 'solutions' serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes.

Most problems precisely defined are already partially solved.

The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound to the complete truth.