Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
23 November 2018 https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/1066238599253843968 regarding Andrew Yang, highlighted 11 March 2019 by Vox https://www.vox.com/2019/3/11/18256198/andrew-yang-gang-presidential-policies-universal-basic-income-joe-rogan and 10 April 2019 by Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/andrew-yang-4chan-alt-right/ <br class="br">2018
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Though written in contemporary idiomatic English, this has been recently cited on the Internet on various "quotations" websites (and elsewhere) as having being written by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland [sic]. However, it does not appear within the text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass. It was actually a line spoken by a character named Jefferson in Once Upon a Time (TV series) in a 2012 episode entitled "Hat Trick," in which the literary character The Mad Hatter appears. – Ref: Internet Movie Database (IMDb), quotes from Once upon a Time, "Hat Trick" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2104520/quotes. <br class="br">Misattributed
Raymond Geuss (1946) British philosopher
Source: Outside Ethics (2005), p. 9.
“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”
G. K. Chesterton book The Scandal of Father Brown
The Scandal of Father Brown (1935) The Point of a Pin
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
“Death solves all problems — no man, no problem.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
This actually comes from the novel Children of the Arbat (1987) by Anatoly Rybakov. In his later book The Novel of Memories ( In Russian http://www.sakharov-center.ru/asfcd/auth/auth_pages.xtmpl?Key=18637&page=307) Rybakov admitted that he had no sources for such a statement. <br class="br">Misattributed
Béla H. Bánáthy (1919–2003) Hungarian linguist and systems scientist
Source: Systems Design of Education (1991), p. 20
George Pólya (1887–1985) Hungarian mathematician
Mathematical Methods in Science (1977)
Context: We wish to see... the typical attitude of the scientist who uses mathematics to understand the world around us.... In the solution of a problem... there are typically three phases. The first phase is entirely or almost entirely a matter of physics; the third, a matter of mathematics; and the intermediate phase, a transition from physics to mathematics. The first phase is the formulation of the physical hypothesis or conjecture; the second, its translation into equations; the third, the solution of the equations. Each phase calls for a different kind of work and demands a different attitude.<!--p.164
Wei Dai Cryptocurrency pioneer and computer scientist
In a discussion thread https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q8jyAdRYbieK8PtfT/taking-ideas-seriously#Ym77AptKtD2h9bXXd on LessWrong, August 2010
“The human race believes in not taking its problems seriously enough to solve them.”
Celia Green (1935) British philosopher
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)