There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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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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Television is the third parent.
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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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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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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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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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