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Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller, 1895 - 1983

Buckminster Fuller quotes:

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• The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment. Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller - Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
  
  
• The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller
  
  
• The more we learn the more we realize how little we know. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller
  
  
• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller - Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
  
  
• 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. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller - Final interview before his death, "NewsCenter4", WNBC-TV (1983)
  
  
• The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller - Critical Path (1981)
  
  
• The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller - Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
  
  
• The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller - "Only Integrity Is Going to Count" (1983)
  
  
• The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller
  
  
• The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller - Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
  
  
• There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller - Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
  
  
• There is no energy crisis, food crisis or environmental crisis. There is only a crisis of ignorance. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller
  
  
• There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller - Critical Path (1981)
  
  
• There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller
  
  
• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. permalink
      Buckminster Fuller
  
  

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