Approach Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

— Steven Pinker

A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything else involves…

— Dale Jamieson

Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature…

— Doron Zeilberger

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a…

— Michael Crichton

“As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over from mathematics…

— Charles Seife

“The point of absolute equilibrium is where the Universe reaches its “highest absolute” point on the macro side and its “lowest absolute” point on…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I mean, if you have any idea of any kind of complexity or immensity or destiny, of general order, you're put in a position…

— Lincoln Kirstein

The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

— Pierre Reverdy

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

— Thomas Huxley