"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)
"Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes." (Buckminster Fuller, "R Buckminster Fuller on education", 1979)
"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)
"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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