The vector equilibrium is the zero point for R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes. R. Buckminster Fuller tasksneedsthinking The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity. R. Buckminster Fuller humanityselfworld Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way. R. Buckminster Fuller educationalpainwisdom Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea. R. Buckminster Fuller designtoolswisdom The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles R. Buckminster Fuller mysteriousbehaviorprinciples Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do. R. Buckminster Fuller ninety-ninewisdomhumanity Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love. R. Buckminster Fuller effectivenessmysteriousthinking Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system. R. Buckminster Fuller spaceearthsun Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. R. Buckminster Fuller faithfulparentunhappy Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies. R. Buckminster Fuller dismissalmomentarythinking Life is the spirit incarnate in time. R. Buckminster Fuller spiritlife-is Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations. R. Buckminster Fuller patternseventsfundamentals ...primarily the individual is going to study at home. R. Buckminster Fuller individualstudyhome Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat. R. Buckminster Fuller feetmistakefirsts God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating. R. Buckminster Fuller comprehensivehumansintegrity Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. R. Buckminster Fuller embroideryclothessuits I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of R. Buckminster Fuller mechanisminstruments Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two. R. Buckminster Fuller chaosunitytwo War is the ultimate tool of politics. R. Buckminster Fuller toolswarpeace For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less. R. Buckminster Fuller high-standardspoliticsmen
