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R. Buckminster Fuller quotes about humanity

American Inventor July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983

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I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem. R. Buckminster Fuller
When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I've been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That's a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we're in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point... R. Buckminster Fuller
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO? R. Buckminster Fuller
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics. R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller quote: "Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after..."
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller quote: "Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their..."
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. R. Buckminster Fuller
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat. 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
R. Buckminster Fuller quote: "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the..."
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. R. Buckminster Fuller

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