Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

Sourced, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)

Other Buckminster Fuller Quotes

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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
In spite of all humans’ innate interest in the interrelatedness of all experience, long ago these world-power-structure builders learned to shunt all the bright intellectuals and the physically creative into specialist careers. The powerful reserved for themselves the far easier, because innate, comprehensive functioning. All one needs to do is to discover how self-perpetuating is this disease of specialization is to witness the inter-departmental battling for educational funds and the concomitant jealous guarding of the various specializations assigned to a department’s salaried experts on each subject in any university. - View Quote Details on In spite of all humans’ innate interest in the interrelatedness…
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 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…
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…
Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances. - View Quote Details on Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds…