There Is No Such Thing

Work Only On Problems That Are Manifestly Important And Seem To Be Nearly Impossible To Solve. That Way You Will Have A Natural Market For Your Product And No Competition.

An Essential Aspect Of Creativity Is Not Being Afraid To Fail.

Any Problem Can Be Solved As Long As It Is Stated Properly.

When Arthur Ashe Plays Tennis, His Purpose Each Day Is To Play The Game In A Way He Has Never Played It Before. It May Be A Backhand He Uses, One That He May Never Have Used Before In That Circumstance. His Play Is A Fresh Integration Of His World At The Instant Of Action. A Really Great Scientist Has The Whole Past At His Disposal. At Any Instant He Is Rebuilding The World, Molecule By Molecule, In His Subconscious. That Is What You Want In An Athlete Or A Scientist.

There's A Tremendous Popular Fallacy Which Holds That Significant Research Can Be Carried Out By Trying Things. Actually It Is Easy To Show That In General No Significant Problem Can Be Solved Empirically, Except For Accidents So Rare As To Be Statistically Unimportant. One Of My Jests Is To Say That We Work Empirically -- We Use Bull's Eye Empiricism. We Try Everything, But We Try The Right Thing First!