Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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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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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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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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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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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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