Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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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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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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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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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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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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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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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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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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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