Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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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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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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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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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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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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I look for what needs to be done
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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If 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.
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