Buckminster Fuller: Integration

Buckminster Fuller was American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist. Explore interesting quotes on integration.

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“There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and noninterfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal. Principles never contradict principles.... The synergetic integral of the totality of principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans — in pure principle — we do not and never will know all the principles.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

“We have not been seeing our Spaceship Earth as an integrally-designed machine which to be persistently successful must be comprehended and serviced in total.”

Buckminster Fuller

1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)