I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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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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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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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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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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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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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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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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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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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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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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