Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHowever, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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