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?”
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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There 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.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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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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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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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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