Fails II
“Nature never ‘fails.’ Nature complies with its own laws. Nature is the law. When Man lacks understanding of Nature's laws and a Man-contrived structure buckles unexpectedly, it does not fail. It only demonstrates that Man did not understand Nature's laws and behaviors. Nothing failed. Man's knowledge or estimating was inadequate.”
-Buckminster Fuller
"How Little I Know", in Saturday Review (November 12, 1966);
Excerpted in “Humans in Universe” by Buckminster Fuller and Answar Dil (1983)