There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of… — 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
