Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Television is the third parent.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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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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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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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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