To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERGod is a verb, not a noun.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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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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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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I look for what needs to be done
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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