I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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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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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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