Our power is in our ability to decide.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDegrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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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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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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You can’t learn less.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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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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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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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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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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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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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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