R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes - Page 9

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• Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.

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  Wisdom, Pain, Educational

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• Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.

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  Two, Unity, Chaos

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

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  Humans, Affected, Universe

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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• It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

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  Break Through, Today, Facts

  "The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In" by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine, p. 30, March 30, 1970.

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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.

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  Thinking, Plus, Knows

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.692, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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  Matter, Few Words, Spectacular

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• By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

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  Air, Years, Water

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• Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

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  Inspirational, Mistake, Errors

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Intuition”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.

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  Ignorance, Responsibility, Reality

  "Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, p. 234, "The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), 1969.

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• When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

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  Beauty, Creativity, Thinking

  "The Universal Book of Mathematics". Book by David Darling, p. 34, November 8, 2004.

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• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Quoted in New Yorker, 8 Jan. 1966

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• Love is a metaphysical gravity.

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  Love Is, Metaphysical, Gravity

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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

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  Principles, Mysterious, Behavior

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.379, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

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  Life, And Love, Integration

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.619, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

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  Creativity, Apology, Thinking

  "The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

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  Men, High Standards, Politics

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

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  Philosophy, Eye, Feel Good

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• Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths.
  Truth is a relationship.

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  Degrees, Reliability, Fundamentals

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.155, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e. that it is normal to make babies. Society will have to change in its assessment of what the proclivities of humanity may be. Our viewpoints on homosexuality, for example, may have to be reconsidered and more wisely adjusted.

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  Baby, Sex, Assessment

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• Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.

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  Abstract, Relativity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.155, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .

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  Men

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• Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

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  Mind, Reflexes, Antithesis

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• You can't learn less.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

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  Rewards, Problem, Difficult

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• Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.

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  Thinking, Effectiveness, Mysterious

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