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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earth Passenger Spaceships
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Needs Tasks Thinking
All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Ideas Inspirational Real
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Believe Blind Men Spots
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Forever Humanity Spiritual
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Environmental Inspirational Space
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Dream Men Thinking
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Support War Wisdom
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Beauty Creativity Thinking
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
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

Design Tools Wisdom
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Designer Done Jobs
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earth Nouns Verbs
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earning Living Notion
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order