The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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I look for what needs to be done
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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