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
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at… — 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
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order… — 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
Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time. — 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
