Buckminster Fuller quotes - page 7

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider. (Buckminster Fuller)
Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety- nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible. View quote
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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. View quote
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Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. View quote
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve. View quote
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. View quote
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations. View quote
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war. View quote
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Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic. View quote
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. View quote
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. (Buckminster Fuller)
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. View quote
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. View quote
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. View quote
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more. View quote
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. View quote
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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. View quote
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The quantity of energy that ceased to "fall in" is the system's entropy. View quote
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I find the audiences very excited. But then they come and say to me, "Your optimism has brushed off on me. I didn't know we had an option. I feel so much better." They say, "Your optimism." And I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. View quote
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There's a major pattern of energy in universe wherein the very large events, earthquakes, and so forth, occur in any one area of universe very much less frequently than do the small energy events. Around the Earth insects occur more often than do earthquakes. In the patterning of total evolutionary events, there comes a time, once in a while, amongst the myriad of low energy events, when a large energy event transpires and is so disturbing that with their general adaptability lost, the ultra-specialized creatures perish. View quote
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Einstein, Planck, and other leading scientists said, "We're going to have to reassess and redefine the physical universe." - They defined the physical universe as "an aggregate of non-simultaneous and only partially overlapping transformation events." (Buckminster Fuller)
We must stop burning up the house to keep the family warm. We have all the technology needed to tap vast cosmic energies of the sun but greedy big business and money drunk government won't allow it because they haven't found a way to place a meter on the sun. View quote
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It also involves constant reference of all the reciprocating sub-sets to the comprehensive totality of non-simultaneous universe, from which naught may be lost. View quote
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. View quote
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So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living. View quote
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