Seven Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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