Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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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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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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