Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Television is the third parent.
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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 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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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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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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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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