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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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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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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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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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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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