We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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?
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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