Buckminster Fuller

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

Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Buckminster Fuller

None of the world’s problems will have a solution until the world’s individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

Buckminster Fuller

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Buckminster Fuller

On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.

Buckminster Fuller

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.

Buckminster Fuller

Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.

Buckminster Fuller

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It’s time we gave this some thought.

Buckminster Fuller

Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.

Buckminster Fuller

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

Buckminster Fuller