"Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic." (R Buckminster Fuller, "4D Timelock", 1928)
"Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own." (R Buckminster Fuller, "Utopia or oblivion: the prospects for humanity", 1963)
"A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved." (R Buckminster Fuller, "I Seem to be a Verb", 1970)
"Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions." (R Buckminster Fuller, "Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking", 1975)
"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment." (R Buckminster Fuller, [Interview in the Minneapolis Tribune] 1978)
"It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes." (R Buckminster Fuller, "Humans in Universe", 1983)
"Again and again, step by step, intuition opens the doors that lead to man's designing." (R Buckminster Fuller)
"Change the environment; do not try to change man." (R Buckminster Fuller)
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." (R Buckminster Fuller)
"The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems." (R 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." (R Buckminster Fuller)
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." (R Buckminster Fuller)
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