Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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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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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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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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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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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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