All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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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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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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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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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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You can’t learn less.
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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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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