We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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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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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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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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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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