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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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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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.
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Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to make it economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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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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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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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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