We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERLove is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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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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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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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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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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