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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTo ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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 no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Doing more with less.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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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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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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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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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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