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• It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, and as-yet unsolved problems. - View Quote Details on It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local…
• 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 - View Quote Details on on first priority / in design consideration / is the…
• Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two. - View Quote Details on Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two.
• Love is metaphysical gravity. - View Quote Details on Love is metaphysical gravity.
• People have feet. Trees have roots. - View Quote Details on People have feet. Trees have roots.
• The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done — that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual. - View Quote Details on The Things to do are: the things that need doing,…
• As a consequence of the slavish “categoryitis” the scientifically illogical, and as we shall see, often meaningless questions “Where do you live?” “What are you?” “What religion?” “What race?” “What nationality?” are all thought of today as logical questions. By the twenty-first century it either will have become evident to humanity that these questions are absurd and anti-evolutionary or men will no longer be living on Earth. - View Quote Details on As a consequence of the slavish “categoryitis” the scientifically illogical,…
• Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. - View Quote Details on Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth,…
• Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies. - View Quote Details on Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
• It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate. You can decieve others, you can decieve your brain-self, but you can’t decieve your mind-self — for mind deals only in the discovery of truth and the interrelationship of all truths. The cosmic laws with which mind deals are noncorruptible. Cosmic evolution is omniscient God comprehensively articulate. - View Quote Details on It is the integrity of each individual human that is…
• It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom? - View Quote Details on It is not for me to change you. The question…
• The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe. - View Quote Details on The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy…
• Don’t fight forces, use them. - View Quote Details on Don’t fight forces, use them.
• Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction. - View Quote Details on Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is…
• Up to the twentieth century, “reality” was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum… humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible. - View Quote Details on Up to the twentieth century, “reality” was everything humans could…
• Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry– from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time? - View Quote Details on Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet…
• The new human networks’ emergence represents the natural evolutionary expansion into the just completed, thirty-years-in-its-buildings world-embracing, physical communications network. The new reorienting of human networking constitutes the heart-and-mind-pumped flow of life and intellect into the world arteries. - View Quote Details on The new human networks’ emergence represents the natural evolutionary expansion…
• The effective decisions can only be made by the independently thinking and adequately informed human individuals and their telepathically intercommunicated wisdom–the wisdom of the majority of all such human individuals–qualifying for continuance in Universe as local cosmic problem-solvers–in love with the truth and in individually spontaneous self-commitment to absolute faith in the wisdom, integrity, and love of God, who seems to wish Earthian humans to survive. - View Quote Details on The effective decisions can only be made by the independently…
• When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I’ve been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That’s a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we’re in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do. - View Quote Details on When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate…
• Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate “comprehensivity.” Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us. - View Quote Details on Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist…
• A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static. - View Quote Details on A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by…
• There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings — and all the people sleeping in the slums. - View Quote Details on There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping…
• You either make sense or you make money. - View Quote Details on You either make sense or you make money.
• I am convinced that human continuance depends entirely upon: the intuitive wisdom of each and every individual… the individual’s integrity of speaking and acting only on the individual’s own within-self-intuited and reasoned initiative… the individual’s never joining action with others as motivated only by crowd-engendered-emotionalism, or a sense of the crowd’s power to overwhelm, or in fear of holding to the course indicated by one’s own intellectual convictions. - View Quote Details on I am convinced that human continuance depends entirely upon: the…
• Einstein, Planck, and other leading scientists said, ‘We’re going to have to reassess and redefine the physical universe.’ — They defined the physical universe as ‘an aggregate of non-simultaneous and only partially overlapping transformation events.’ - View Quote Details on Einstein, Planck, and other leading scientists said, ‘We’re going to…
• Evolution consists of many great revolutionary events taking place quite independently of man’s consciously attempting to bring them about. Man is very vain; he likes to feel that he is responsible for all the favorable things that happen, and he is innocent of all the unfavorable happenings. But all the larger evolutionary patternings seeming favorable or unfavorable to man’s conditioned reflexing are transpiring transcendentally to any of man’s conscious planning or contriving. - View Quote Details on Evolution consists of many great revolutionary events taking place quite…
• This book is written with the conviction that there are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem… You and I didn’t design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe. - View Quote Details on This book is written with the conviction that there are…
• We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected — like it or not — ‘life is but a dream.’ - View Quote Details on We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena…
• 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 - View Quote Details on on first priority / in design consideration / is the…
• Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. - View Quote Details on Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but…
• There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity. - View Quote Details on There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and…
• Sum-totally, we find that the physical constituent of wealth-energy-cannot decrease and that the metaphysical constituent-know-how-can only increase. This is to say that everytime we use our wealth it increases. - View Quote Details on Sum-totally, we find that the physical constituent of wealth-energy-cannot decrease…
• I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe. - View Quote Details on I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know…
• It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival. - View Quote Details on It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody…
• I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less… (1947 ) - View Quote Details on I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions…
• You may very appropriately want to ask me how we are going to resolve the ever-acceleratingly dangerous impasse of world-opposed politicians and ideological dogmas. I answer, it will be resolved by the computer. - View Quote Details on You may very appropriately want to ask me how we…
• When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - View Quote Details on When I am working on a problem I never think…
• I do not look upon human beings as good or bad. I don’t think of my feet as a right foot and a wrong foot…. I am a student of the effectiveness of the technological evolution in its all unexpected alterations of the preoccupations of humanity and in its all unexpected alterings of human behaviors and prospects. - View Quote Details on I do not look upon human beings as good or…
• There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world’s population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity. - View Quote Details on There is room enough indoors in New York City for…
• Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system’s separate parts or any subassembly of the system’s parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being. - View Quote Details on Synergy is the only word in our language that means…
• Topology provides the synergetic means of ascertaining the values of any system of experiences. Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations. - View Quote Details on Topology provides the synergetic means of ascertaining the values of…
• There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and noninterfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal. Principles never contradict principles…. The synergetic integral of the totality of principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans — in pure principle — we do not and never will know all the principles. - View Quote Details on There are no solids. There are no things. There are…
• All sports are time control demonstrations… - View Quote Details on All sports are time control demonstrations…
• 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. - View Quote Details on All of humanity now has the option to “make it”…
• I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced. - View Quote Details on I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity,…
• The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love. - View Quote Details on The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth…
• Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers. - View Quote Details on Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They…
• 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. - View Quote Details on Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors,…
• When blimp photographs are taken of giant stadia packed full of rock-concert or football fans, we get an idea of what 100,000 people look like. We all think of Hiroshima as the worst single killing of humans by humans. That was about a 75,000-capacity-coliseum-full. Each day of each year, year after year, a 75,000-capacity-stadiumfull of around-the-world humans perish from starvation or its side effects, despite an annual average 5-percent world food-production overage of the amount of food adequate for the total world’s population. This daily kill of innocents dwarfs the awful Auschwitz killing. - View Quote Details on When blimp photographs are taken of giant stadia packed full…
• “Reality” should always be in quotes. - View Quote Details on “Reality” should always be in quotes.

About Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster Fuller (12 July 1895 – 1 July 1983 ) was an American philosopher, architect, and inventor, known to many of his friends and fans as “Bucky” Fuller.

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