For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt… — 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
