There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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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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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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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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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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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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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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