Buckminster Fuller quotes - page 11

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know. (Buckminster Fuller)
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. View quote
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it. View quote
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The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles. View quote
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper. View quote
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I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using. View quote
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Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective. View quote
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By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water." View quote
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life. View quote
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Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward. View quote
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Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner. (Buckminster Fuller)
We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school. View quote
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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. View quote
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it. View quote
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. View quote
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind. View quote
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed. View quote
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We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is "man-made", ergo artificial. But what one learns in chemistry is that Nature wrote all the rules of structuring; man does not invent chemical structuring rules; he only discovers the rules. All the chemist can do is find out what Nature permits, and any substances that are thus developed or discovered are inherently natural. It is very important to remember that. View quote
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Everyone is born a genius. View quote
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems. View quote
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It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes. (Buckminster Fuller)
How do we make the world work? View quote
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind. View quote
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...doing more with less. View quote
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. View quote
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