Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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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 have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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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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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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