Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Nature 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.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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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.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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You can’t learn less.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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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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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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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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