R. Buckminster Fuller Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

Life is the spirit incarnate in time.

To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.

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

In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

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

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

You can't learn less.

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.

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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

Never show unfinished work.

The impossible happens.

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

Some of us are just less damaged than others.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

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

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.

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

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

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

I look for what needs to be done

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

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.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent

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

Everything we see is inside our own heads.

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

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

Tension is the great integrity.

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

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.

Truth is a tendency.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Universe to each must be
All that is, including me.
Environment in turn must be
All that is, excepting me.

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

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.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art.

You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve.
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