Insoluble Word Problem

Famous quotes containing the words insoluble, word and/or problem:

    “The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way—which money could buy ... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.”
    —Theodore Zeldin (b. 1923)

    “Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.”
    —Silius Italicus (26–101)

    “What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough ... had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)