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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. — R. Buckminster Fuller

You never change people by fighting their existing reality. — R. Buckminster Fuller

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error. — R. Buckminster Fuller

If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. — R. Buckminster Fuller

How do we make the world work? — R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad. — R. Buckminster Fuller

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do ... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO? — R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. — R. Buckminster Fuller

We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical. — R. Buckminster Fuller

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Doing more with less. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing ... after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked — R. Buckminster Fuller

You can never learn less, you can only learn more. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Integrity is the essence of everything successful. — R. Buckminster Fuller

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy — R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't change the man. Change his environment. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have? — R. Buckminster Fuller

Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. — R. Buckminster Fuller

You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. — R. Buckminster Fuller

You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't fight forces, use them. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea. — R. Buckminster Fuller

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups. — R. Buckminster Fuller

If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Everything we see is inside our own heads. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Our power is in our ability to decide. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent — R. Buckminster Fuller

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve — R. Buckminster Fuller

I look for what needs to be done — R. Buckminster Fuller

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful. — R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking ... — R. Buckminster Fuller

You can't learn less. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule ... — R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance. — R. Buckminster Fuller

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water." — R. Buckminster Fuller

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth. — R. Buckminster Fuller

To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Universe is plural at minimum sixfold. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems. — R. Buckminster Fuller

You either make sense or you make money. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms. — R. Buckminster Fuller

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Life is the spirit incarnate in time. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Some of us are just less damaged than others. — R. Buckminster Fuller

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. — R. Buckminster Fuller

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work. — R. Buckminster Fuller

As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Either war is obsolete, or men are. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony. — R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Dare to be naive. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider. — R. Buckminster Fuller

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. — R. Buckminster Fuller

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed. — R. Buckminster Fuller

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries. — R. Buckminster Fuller