If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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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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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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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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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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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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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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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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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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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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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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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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