I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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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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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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