… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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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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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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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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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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