Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERRealizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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 must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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