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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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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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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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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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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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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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