R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.
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Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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We 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. 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.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
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The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
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In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
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Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
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Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
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Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.
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Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
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... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
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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.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.
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It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.