We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but… — 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
Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken… — 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
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry. — 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
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. — 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
All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale 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
