R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Spiritual, Forever, Humanity

• I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Verbs, Nouns, Earth

  "I Seem to Be a Verb". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1970.

• Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Race, Humanity, Finals

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

• You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Support You, Age, Attention

• I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Needs, Relevant, Wells

• With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Mind, Principles

• I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Strength, Leadership, Guitar

• I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Creativity, Conformity

  R. Buckminster Fuller “World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 2”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Earth, Coping, Spaceships

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.83, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Humans, Comprehensive

• Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, People, Political

• Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  School, Knowledge, Suggestions

• I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Jobs, Done, Designer

• What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Science, Reality

• Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Ninety Nine, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.19, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Support, Gathering

• The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Events, Universe

• Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Life Is, Universe

• Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Overlapping, Universe

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.81, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• Universe to each must be
  All that is, including me.
  Environment in turn must be
  All that is, excepting me.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Environment, Turns, Including

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1983). “Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.3, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Jobs, Home, People

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.53, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender
  and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Unique, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.69, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humans, Affected, Universe

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

• The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Realization, Evolution, Assumption

  R. Buckminster Fuller “World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 3”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Law, Support, Democracy

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.103, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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