Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

Intellectual capacity is related to the ability of solving problems in the
right manner.

We were not prepared ... we are under attack, under siege, having to temporarily relocate personnel.

They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent