All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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… 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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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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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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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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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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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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