We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water." — 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
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment… Humanity is… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time… — 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
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought… — 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
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
Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological… — 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
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
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