R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from R. Buckminster Fuller on Wise Famous Quotes.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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.
Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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.
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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.
God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.
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.
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.
Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
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.
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.
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.
Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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.
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.
Universe to each must be
All that is, including me.
Environment in turn must be
All that is, excepting me.
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.
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.