If 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 Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly. R. Buckminster Fuller nature science reality The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children. R. Buckminster Fuller technology new-relationship children The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. R. Buckminster Fuller pyramids names history Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction. R. Buckminster Fuller extinction pollution racism Never show unfinished work. R. Buckminster Fuller unfinished unfinished-work shows Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly. R. Buckminster Fuller pollution resources used The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe. R. Buckminster Fuller support democracy law The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful. R. Buckminster Fuller delicate beautiful integrity The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization. R. Buckminster Fuller literature special mean 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. R. Buckminster Fuller information satisfaction 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. R. Buckminster Fuller support integrity mean If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would I be? What would I do? We may now care for each Earthian individual at a sustainable billionaire's level of affluence while living exclusively on less than 1 percent of our planet's daily energy income from our cosmically designed nuclear reactor, the Sun, optimally located 92 million safe miles away from us. R. Buckminster Fuller care safe may Universe is plural at minimum sixfold. R. Buckminster Fuller minimum universe The impossible happens. R. Buckminster Fuller impossible happens We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is "man-made", ergo artificial. But what one learns in chemistry is that Nature wrote all the rules of structuring; man does not invent chemical structuring rules; he only discovers the rules. All the chemist can do is find out what Nature permits, and any substances that are thus developed or discovered are inherently natural. It is very important to remember that. R. Buckminster Fuller learning men science Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of R. Buckminster Fuller language behavior mean It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. R. Buckminster Fuller unsolved-problems exciting discovery Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic. R. Buckminster Fuller universe life-is Dictators never invent their own opportunities. R. Buckminster Fuller dictator invention opportunity The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject. R. Buckminster Fuller important special order
