I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou can’t learn less.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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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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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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