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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFreeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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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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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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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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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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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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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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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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