All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now. R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical. R. Buckminster Fuller metaphysical communication mean Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively. R. Buckminster Fuller decision integrity interesting Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now. R. Buckminster Fuller graphic graphic-design design I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper. R. Buckminster Fuller environment numbers men If we design the environment properly R. Buckminster Fuller design men children The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. R. Buckminster Fuller persistence humanity dark Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller unnecessary selfishness war It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes. R. Buckminster Fuller truth-is progressive errors Nature 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 Fuller plus knows thinking Controlled time is our true wealth. R. Buckminster Fuller true-wealth wealth inspirational Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact). R. Buckminster Fuller perception reality facts Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective. R. Buckminster Fuller objectives subjective realization We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience. R. Buckminster Fuller data order mean [A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity. Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous--tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming. R. Buckminster Fuller special may integrity Everything we see is inside our own heads. R. Buckminster Fuller Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. R. Buckminster Fuller pollution resources technology Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. R. Buckminster Fuller reliability degrees fundamentals Tension is the great integrity. R. Buckminster Fuller spectacular tension integrity Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts. R. Buckminster Fuller synergy behavior mean Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs R. Buckminster Fuller income energy wind