Insoluble Word Problem

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

    “Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “The word unto the prophet spoken
    Was writ on tables yet unbroken;
    The word by seers or sibyls told,
    In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,
    Still floats upon the morning wind,
    Still whispers to the willing mind.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)