The opposite of nature is impossible.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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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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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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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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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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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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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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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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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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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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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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I look for what needs to be done
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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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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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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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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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