R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
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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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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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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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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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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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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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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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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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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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We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
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We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e. that it is normal to make babies. Society will have to change in its assessment of what the proclivities of humanity may be. Our viewpoints on homosexuality, for example, may have to be reconsidered and more wisely adjusted.