Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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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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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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