We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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