It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPhysics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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This 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.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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