It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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