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?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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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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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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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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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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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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Doing more with less.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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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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