The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAs long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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I 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
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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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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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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