I look for what needs to be done
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERChildren are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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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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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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.
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