Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTechnologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWar is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThis will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThink 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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