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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERCoping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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You can’t learn less.
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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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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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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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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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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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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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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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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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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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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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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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