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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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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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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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