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We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

Asking Forever Wife

Zitate Abraham Kaplan:

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Children Humorous Parenting

A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.

Mean Predicaments Problem

In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.

Boys Giving Law