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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity Law Men
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Circle Philosophy Want
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Order Survival Tasks
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Philosophy Talking World
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Damage Genius
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Environmental Inspirational Space
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Experiments Men More
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Acting Peace Venture
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Money People Want
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Motivational World
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Genius Mother People
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Spectacular Vices Virtue
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
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