Friday, November 07, 2008

Quotes of the Day: Nonsense

I really enjoy these two quotes together today.  My favorite bit of Buckminster's theory, "There are no straight lines."  It seems to take a lifetime to work the 'straight line' mentality, taught in elementary school, out of the problem solving process.

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 Fuller

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.  Anonymous

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