Television is the third parent.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTopology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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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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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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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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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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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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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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