There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster FullerIn order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
R. Buckminster FullerAll 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.
R. Buckminster FullerAt first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a gradually awakening consciousness of the presence of new families of differentiating-out challenging concepts of every day prominence. It is with these randomly patterning families of separate concepts that evolution is about to deal integratively. As a now specific unitary problem it may be disposed of effectively when and if that unified problem becomes "adequately stated" and thereby comprehensibly solvable.
R. Buckminster Fuller