If you ignorantly believe there’s not enough life support available on planet Earth for all humanity, then survival only of the fittest seems self-flatteringly to warrant magna-selfishness. However, it is due only to humans’ born state of ignorance and the 99.99-percent invisibility of technological capabilities that they do not recognize the vast abundance of resources available to support all humanity at an omni-high standard of living.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential – for as at present used, or designed, the world’s resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry – from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don’t tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I’m talking about.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

If you ignorantly believe there’s not enough life support available on planet Earth for all humanity, then survival only of the fittest seems self-flatteringly to warrant magna-selfishness. However, it is due only to humans’ born state of ignorance and the 99.99-percent invisibility of technological capabilities that they do not recognize the vast abundance of resources available to support all humanity at an omni-high standard of living.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

They experience new-born hope that humans have indeed a destiny of individual significance complementary to the integrity of other individuals.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is an experimental initiative of Universe.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Because the armored knight required many helping hands to mount him and maintain his horses and arms, he had to have their goodwill and support lest his helpers overwhelm him when dismounted and encased in his armor.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Wealth is a person’s ability to survive a certain number of days forward.

— R. Buckminster Fuller
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