I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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I look for what needs to be done
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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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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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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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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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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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