Kofi Annan

Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.

Ghanaian Statesman

Carl Jung

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Swiss Psychologist

Charles Darwin

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

English Scientist

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.

French Physicist

Theodor W. Adorno

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

German Philosopher

John W. Gardner

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

American Educator

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

American Theologian

James A. Michener

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

American Novelist

Henry Adams

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

American Historian

Benjamin Disraeli

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

British Statesman

Used to describe problems or mysteries where no clear answer is possible.

Abstract Usage

It's often used metaphorically to express difficulty in finding solutions.

Not Literal

Can convey a sense of frustration or hopelessness about a situation.

Emotional Weight

Commonly used in chemistry to talk about substances that don't dissolve.

Scientific Term

Look for words related to science or materials - this usage is likely.

Context Clues

Refers to a permanent characteristic of a substance, not a temporary state.

Nature of Substance

 here are some questions you can ask, and the well-informed answers that your friend, being a reasonable individual making educated dietary choices, and by no means just following the latest diet craze, will tell you. What is gluten? Gluten is an insoluble protein composite

What’s the big deal with...

 So as with life, so with consciousness. Once we start explaining its properties in terms of things happening inside brains and bodies, the apparently insoluble mystery of what consciousness is should start to fade away. At least that's the plan. So let's get started.

Your brain hallucinates...

 in aging animals like worms have surprising similarities to serious diseases seen in ageing humans we've shown recently that during normal aging in worms there is an accumulation of insoluble proteins and we believe this

Insoluble