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Only Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller
- You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
- You can never learn less; you can only learn more.
- You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and…
- 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…
- There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
- There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.
- Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. . .…
- Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always…
- The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent…
- Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is…
- . . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one…
- Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.
- For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever…
- Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.
- We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get…
- When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
- There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
- It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only…
- Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
- I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano…
- Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
- Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
- Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are…
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