And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERNature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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I look for what needs to be done
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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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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