Problem Half Solved Quotes & Sayings

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved. — John Dewey

a problem well put is half solved. — John Dewey

A problem defined, is a problem half solved. — Albert Einstein

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. — Dorothea Brande

A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated. — Dorothea Brande

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved. — John Dewey

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. — Charles Kettering

No matter how limited their powers of reason might have been. still they must have understood that living like that was just murder, a capital crime - except it was slow, day-by-day murder. The government (or humanity) could not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time. To kill one man - that is, to subtract 50 years from the sum of all human lives - that was a crime; but to subtract from the sum of all human lives 50,000,000 years - that was not a crime! No, really, isn't it funny? This problem in moral math could be solved in half a minute by any ten-year-old Number today, but they couldn't solve it. All their Kant's together couldn't solve it (because it never occurred to one of their Kant's to construct a system of scientific ethics - that is, one based on subtraction, addition, division, and multiplication). — Yevgeny Zamyatin