Buckminster Fuller

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.

Buckminster Fuller

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Buckminster Fuller

Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.

Buckminster Fuller

Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

Buckminster Fuller

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.

Buckminster Fuller

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

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

Buckminster Fuller

Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system’s separate parts or any subassembly of the system’s parts.

Buckminster Fuller

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

Buckminster Fuller