Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.


Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)

Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the...

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the...

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the...

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the...