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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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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
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Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
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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 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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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Conceptuality is subjective realization is objective.
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It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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 just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.
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One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.
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Ideas are easy to come by reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.
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You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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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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You can never learn less you can only learn more.
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