Buckminster Fuller Quotes
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
...primarily the individual is going to study at home.
We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.
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.
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.
Above 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.
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.
What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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.
Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
