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.
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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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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[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.
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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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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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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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