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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Television is the third parent.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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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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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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