R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Learning Men Science
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Computer Home Stay Universe
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Conformity Creativity Integrity
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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Knows Plus Thinking
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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Environment Initiative Thinking
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Jobs Numbers Politics
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
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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Alternative Intelligent Stupid
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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Children Crush Order
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.
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Love Radiation Together
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Integrity People Political
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Dream Men Thinking
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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Democracy Law Support
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Integrity Law Men
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
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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Determine Initiative Self Spring

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