Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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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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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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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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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Television is the third parent.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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