R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Consider the following quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller:

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."

"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"

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

"Dare to be naive."

"Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the univ"

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