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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Doing more with less.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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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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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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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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