Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSpecialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERRashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t change the man. Change his environment.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSearch others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERReal wealth is ideas plus energy.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThese are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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.
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