There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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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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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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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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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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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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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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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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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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