All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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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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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Television is the third parent.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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