… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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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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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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