We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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.
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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.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Never show unfinished work.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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