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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

How do we make the world work?

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else…

— R. Buckminster Fuller