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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Copies Principles Trying
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Fate Humanity Integrity
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Better Get Little Machine Politically
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earth Passenger Spaceships
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Self Understanding
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
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Business Ignorant Littering
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Experiments Men More
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

America Order Years
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
It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Computer Home Stay Universe
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Events Fundamental Pattern
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Emergencies Enough Ideas
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