It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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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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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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