Buckminster Fuller Quotes

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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

Buckminster Fuller

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

Buckminster Fuller

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

Buckminster Fuller

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

Buckminster Fuller

Scientific discovery is invention, and vice versa.

Buckminster Fuller

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

Buckminster Fuller

The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.

Buckminster Fuller

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

Buckminster Fuller