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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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Massachusetts
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.
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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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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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You can never learn less you can only learn more.
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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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Don't change the man. Change his environment.
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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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Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
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One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.
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You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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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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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.
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