„The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment.“

— Buckminster Fuller
„Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.“
— Buckminster Fuller
„Each age is characterized by its own astronomical myriads of new, special-case experiences and problems to be stored in freshly born optimum capacity human brains — which storages in turn may disclose to human minds the presence of heretofore undiscovered, unsuspectedly existent eternal generalized principles.“
— Buckminster Fuller
„the area dividing the brain and the soulis affected in many ways byexperience –some lose all mind and become soul:insane.some lose all soul and become mind:intellectual.some lose both and become:accepted.“
— Charles Bukowski
„The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.“
— Buckminster Fuller
„Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.“
— Groucho Marx
„Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature. This resonance, extracted by natural selection, between our brains and the universe may help explain a quandary set by Einstein: The most incomprehensible property of the universe, he said, is that it is so comprehensible.“
— Carl Sagan