Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHuman beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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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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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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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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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Never show unfinished work.
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Doing more with less.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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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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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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