I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how? — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
