We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREvery child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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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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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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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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You can’t learn less.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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