Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERInstead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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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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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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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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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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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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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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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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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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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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