Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and 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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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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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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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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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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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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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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