Man knows so much and does so little.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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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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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Never show unfinished work.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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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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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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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’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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