Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.

It is enough knowing the problem to solve the problem.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?'

Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

Accept the problem, pray for a solution, then let go until the answer arrives.

Most often the solution is not hard. The hard part is recognising the problem.