You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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[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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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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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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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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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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