Problems Encountered While Walking Along the Street

If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19¹/₂ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.

Notes:

80 percent are insoluble, 19.5 percent are trivial, and 0.5 percent require hard work to solve and that is the realm of the academic.

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The Making of a Scientist

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Bondi, Sir Hermann (June 1983), The Making of a Scientist, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 403, Retrieved on 2012-01-23

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