If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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?”
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThose who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERNinety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIn order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe opposite of nature is impossible.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhether 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?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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