Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhat usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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I look for what needs to be done
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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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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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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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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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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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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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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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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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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