Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHavenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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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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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Quite 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.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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