I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERNature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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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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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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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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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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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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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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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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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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