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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
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I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
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