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I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.
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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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
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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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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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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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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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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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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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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Everything we see is inside our own heads.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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