If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhen I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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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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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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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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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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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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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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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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You can’t learn less.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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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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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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