All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHe will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Never show unfinished work.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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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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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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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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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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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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