Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“Wealth is a person’s ability to survive a certain number of days forward.” — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others… — 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
