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?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROur power is in our ability to decide.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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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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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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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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