Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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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.
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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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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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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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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.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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We 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.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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