on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDegrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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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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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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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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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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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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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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