If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Television is the third parent.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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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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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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