The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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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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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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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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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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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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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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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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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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