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R Buckminster Fuller Quotes

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed Picture Quote #1

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough Picture Quote #1

History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky Picture Quote #1

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth Picture Quote #1

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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns Picture Quote #1

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons Picture Quote #1

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space Picture Quote #1

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life Picture Quote #1

I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper Picture Quote #1

If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically Picture Quote #1

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Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work Picture Quote #1

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery Picture Quote #1

It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate Picture Quote #1

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them Picture Quote #1

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you’ve got to hook the fish Picture Quote #1

Here is God’s purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper Picture Quote #1

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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune Picture Quote #1

I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job Picture Quote #1

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic Picture Quote #1

Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have? Picture Quote #1

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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love Picture Quote #1

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly Picture Quote #1

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties Picture Quote #1

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking Picture Quote #1

The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual Picture Quote #1

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved Picture Quote #1

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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) 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. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you’ve got to hook the fish. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) Here is God’s purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) 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. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic. (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have? (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes) A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved (R Buckminster Fuller Quotes)

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