People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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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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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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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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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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