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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I look for what needs to be done
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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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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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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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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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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