I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go… — 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
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. — 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… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. — 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
The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the… — 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
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
. . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely… — 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
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
