When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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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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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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