There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFor 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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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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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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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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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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