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?”
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThink of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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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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You can’t learn less.
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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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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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