I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
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
Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about… — 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