The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFor 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 FULLERWe will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhen 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 FULLERHowever, 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 FULLERIf 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 FULLERWe 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 FULLERHow 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 FULLERLife is the spirit incarnate in time.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREvery child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDoes humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAbove all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAmerican labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER