Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMan knows so much and does so little.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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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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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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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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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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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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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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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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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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