It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERGod is a verb, not a noun.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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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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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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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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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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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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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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