By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
R. Buckminster FullerWhat the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.
R. Buckminster FullerWe are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
R. Buckminster FullerThere is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.
R. Buckminster Fuller