Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Never show unfinished work.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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I look for what needs to be done
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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