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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERUniverse is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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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.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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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.
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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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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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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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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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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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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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