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.
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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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Television is the third parent.
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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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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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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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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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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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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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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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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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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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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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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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