The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve 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 environmentifspeople Man knows so much and does so little. R. Buckminster Fuller sadhypocrisymen 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 peopleschoolthinking 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 crushorderchildren People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. R. Buckminster Fuller apologycreativitythinking You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy R. Buckminster Fuller talkingphilosophyworld If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. R. Buckminster Fuller blindmanagementsometimes 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-ninesmellreality 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 extinctionhumanitydoe Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward. R. Buckminster Fuller abilitywealthpersons 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 lawpastthinking 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 importantkeysthinking You can't learn less. R. Buckminster Fuller educationteacherinspirational 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 immortalitypatternsprinciples 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 politicsnumbersjobs Everyone is born a genius. R. Buckminster Fuller bornhuman-naturegenius 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 spectacularnumbersworld The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. R. Buckminster Fuller gunwarmoving The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. R. Buckminster Fuller environmentalspaceinspirational
