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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t change the man. Change his environment.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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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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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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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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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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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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