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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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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.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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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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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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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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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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