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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Go Letting Life Should
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
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

Children Mistakes Sports
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Diversity Fate Success
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Country Jobs Wisdom
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Dark Persistence Thinking
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenges Space Technology
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Experience Genius Life Lesson
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Following Kind Thinking
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Moving Water Wave
I look for what needs to be done
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Art Looks Needs
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Spectacular Vices Virtue
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Clouds People Sky
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Learning Men Science