I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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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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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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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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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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