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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Choices Spontaneous
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Lying Three
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
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Consessus Experiencxe Science
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Child Children Newborn Years
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Believe Blind Men Spots
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Money People Want
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Support War Wisdom
The opposite of nature is impossible.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Impossible Opposites Technology
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Hungry Long Race
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
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
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
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
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

High Men Politics Standard
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Philosophy Talking World