I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTruth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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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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I look for what needs to be done
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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