• Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.

  Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)

  Richard Buckminster Fuller
  American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor 1895-1983
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1. unpredicted
2. subassembly
3. behaviors
4. chemistry
5. existence
6. toenail

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Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being. by : Richard Buckminster Fuller

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