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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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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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With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe.
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What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.
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Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
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Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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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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Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.
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You can never learn less you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
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Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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