I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Never show unfinished work.
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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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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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