Man knows so much and does so little.
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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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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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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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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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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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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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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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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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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