I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERCorollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Never show unfinished work.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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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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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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You can’t learn less.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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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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