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….
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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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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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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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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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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I look for what needs to be done
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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