Buckminster Fuller Quote

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. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.


Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)


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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...