Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
R. Buckminster FullerThe word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.
R. Buckminster Fuller... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
R. Buckminster FullerSynergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
R. Buckminster Fuller