Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREvery time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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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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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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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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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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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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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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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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