Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERRealizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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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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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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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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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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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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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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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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