… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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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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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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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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 opposite of nature is impossible.
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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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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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