It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERNo man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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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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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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