QUOTES by Buckminster Fuller
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“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
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“I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe.”
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“Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent”
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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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“The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy”
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“It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.”
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“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong”
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“We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.”
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“I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.”
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“The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.”
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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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“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.”
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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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“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.”
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“Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”
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“Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the ‘expert’ is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred—ergo, highly secure—lifelong position.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.”
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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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“I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”
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“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?”
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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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“Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is quite staggering”
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“I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.”
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“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
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“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
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“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
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“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
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“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
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“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”
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