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 More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller If you change the environment, you change the people. R. Buckminster Fuller environment ifs people Man knows so much and does so little. R. Buckminster Fuller sad hypocrisy men The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living. R. Buckminster Fuller people school thinking Sharing is having more. R. Buckminster Fuller Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart. R. Buckminster Fuller crush order children People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. R. Buckminster Fuller apology creativity thinking You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy R. Buckminster Fuller talking philosophy world If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. R. Buckminster Fuller blind management sometimes Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety- R. Buckminster Fuller ninety-nine smell reality 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 extinction humanity doe Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward. R. Buckminster Fuller ability wealth persons It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree. R. Buckminster Fuller law past thinking Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. R. Buckminster Fuller important keys thinking The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve R. Buckminster Fuller rewards difficult problem You can't learn less. R. Buckminster Fuller education teacher inspirational There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal. R. Buckminster Fuller immortality patterns principles American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate. R. Buckminster Fuller politics numbers jobs Everyone is born a genius. R. Buckminster Fuller born human-nature genius I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries. R. Buckminster Fuller spectacular numbers world The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. R. Buckminster Fuller gun war moving
