How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSpecialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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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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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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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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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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