So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.
R. Buckminster FullerIf humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. Buckminster FullerEverything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.
R. Buckminster FullerWe as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
R. Buckminster FullerWhen I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. Buckminster Fuller