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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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These 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.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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