When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROnly our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Doing more with less.
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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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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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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.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Television is the third parent.
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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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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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