The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROur little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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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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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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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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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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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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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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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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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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