We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERChildren are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Doing more with less.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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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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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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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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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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