The opposite of nature is impossible.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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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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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.
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I look for what needs to be done
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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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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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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