When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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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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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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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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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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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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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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