The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSpaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
-
-
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 -
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
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 -
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
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