I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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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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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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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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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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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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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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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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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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