Spaceship 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.
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREvery time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhat usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHuman beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPeople never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERLife is the spirit incarnate in time.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHumans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWar is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe 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 FULLERYou can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER