All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERQuite 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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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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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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