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.
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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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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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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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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You can’t learn less.
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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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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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