Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
R. Buckminster FullerI call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.
R. Buckminster FullerRight now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
R. Buckminster FullerEvery time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
R. Buckminster FullerThere is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.
R. Buckminster FullerOnly the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
R. Buckminster FullerUnchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
R. Buckminster FullerWhat humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
R. Buckminster FullerNever forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
R. Buckminster FullerLove is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
R. Buckminster FullerThere 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.
R. Buckminster FullerThe highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
R. Buckminster FullerBrain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
R. Buckminster FullerPeople never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
R. Buckminster FullerIf man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
R. Buckminster FullerIn the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.
R. Buckminster FullerEducation by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.
R. Buckminster FullerWhether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
R. Buckminster FullerRelativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
R. Buckminster FullerUniverse is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
R. Buckminster FullerPhysics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
R. Buckminster FullerIt is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
R. Buckminster FullerHuman beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
R. Buckminster FullerIf we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
R. Buckminster FullerI say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that love is what I'd call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
R. Buckminster FullerI have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
R. Buckminster FullerNature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.
R. Buckminster FullerThe vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach we will ever know to eternity and god: the zero phase of conceptual integrity inherent in the positive and negative asymmetries that propagate the differentials of consciousness.
R. Buckminster FullerHumanity 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?
R. Buckminster FullerSpecialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
R. Buckminster FullerThere is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
R. Buckminster FullerThe question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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