R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.
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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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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths.
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It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
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Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs
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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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We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. 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.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world. Will they be going fast enough to overcome the initiatives of the bureaucracies & the fears operative in those bureaucracies? It's a very touch & go question.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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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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Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
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I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
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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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God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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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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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression
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Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
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Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.