We 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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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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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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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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