R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes - Page 12

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.

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.

We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.

I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

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, & as-yet unsolved problems.

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.

We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

How do we make the world work?

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.