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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe 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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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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