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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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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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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Television is the third parent.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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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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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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