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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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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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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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Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.
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His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
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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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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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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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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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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.
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We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.
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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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