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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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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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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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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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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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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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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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