We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSearch others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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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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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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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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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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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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Doing more with less.
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