It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTruth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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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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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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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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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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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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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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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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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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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Doing more with less.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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