The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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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 question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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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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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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