It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThose who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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If 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.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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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.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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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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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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