We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHe will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Think 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.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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