black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Coping Earth Spaceship
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Mind Strong Women Well Known
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Computer Men Technology
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Pollution Resources Used
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
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenges Decisions Mistakes
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Clothes Embroidery Suits
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Born Children Genius
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Change Giving Thinking
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Democracy Law Support
Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Effectiveness Mysterious Thinking
Doing more with less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Doing Less More
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Radiation Together
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Balance Lines Physics
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Communication Humanity Understanding
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Special Thinking Trying