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All children are born geniuses 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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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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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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).
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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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Don't fight forces, use them.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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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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I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
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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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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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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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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
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Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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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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I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.
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