... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to… — 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
