When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. R. Buckminster Fuller environmentalspaceinspirational Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. R. Buckminster Fuller wisdommotivationalbook It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership. R. Buckminster Fuller designpoliticalworld God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. R. Buckminster Fuller nounsverbsstatistics By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. R. Buckminster Fuller politicaltechnologyparty Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it. R. Buckminster Fuller circleswantphilosophy Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. R. Buckminster Fuller circlesstresshome Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral. R. Buckminster Fuller principleslove-islife I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. R. Buckminster Fuller confidenceself-esteemhumanity Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have? R. Buckminster Fuller enthusiasticenthusiasm Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. R. Buckminster Fuller borntechnologygenius We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. R. Buckminster Fuller fateubuntupeace Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes. R. Buckminster Fuller errorsmistakeinspirational I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish. R. Buckminster Fuller hookintuitionfishing The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have. R. Buckminster Fuller effectivenessstrivegreater So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles. R. Buckminster Fuller ignoranceresponsibilityreality Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. R. Buckminster Fuller childrenknowledgeart For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful. R. Buckminster Fuller technologysuccessfulyears God is a verb, not a noun. R. Buckminster Fuller nounsverbs All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less. R. Buckminster Fuller environmentalhumanitymind
