Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war. R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller technologyhumanityreason You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking. R. Buckminster Fuller givingpeoplethinking A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically. R. Buckminster Fuller problem What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. R. Buckminster Fuller divorcelost-loveeducation The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow. R. Buckminster Fuller importantdoechildren Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. R. Buckminster Fuller spectacularvirtuevices We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign. R. Buckminster Fuller twelvecarethree You never change people by fighting their existing reality. R. Buckminster Fuller fightingrealitypeople "The further art advances the closer it approaches science," said Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and inventor of the wheelbarrow, and other useful instruments from the speaking tube to a mechanically gyp-proof whore-house, "the further science advances the closer it approaches art." R. Buckminster Fuller approachart Don't fight forces, use them. R. Buckminster Fuller use-it-or-lose-itfighterfighting Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. R. Buckminster Fuller devildegreesplay All human advances occur in the outlaw area. R. Buckminster Fuller outlawareashumans It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller selfishclassmoving Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider. R. Buckminster Fuller affecteduniversehumans I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love. R. Buckminster Fuller threeand-lovelying Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked R. Buckminster Fuller alternativesintelligentstupid Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us. R. Buckminster Fuller spaceshipscopingearth If 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 Fuller fatewisdommen With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe. R. Buckminster Fuller principleshumanitymind I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. R. Buckminster Fuller guitarstrengthleadership
