We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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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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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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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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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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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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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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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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