Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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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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 earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Children 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?”
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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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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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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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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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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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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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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