I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThose who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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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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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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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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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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