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 FULLERPollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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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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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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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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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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