You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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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Never show unfinished work.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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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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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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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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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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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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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Corollary 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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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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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.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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