For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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You can’t learn less.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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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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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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