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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.

Sourced, Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)

Other Buckminster Fuller Quotes

I never try to tell anybody else what to do, number one. And number two, I think that’s what the individual is all about. Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule that I can give out, any command. We’re all on the frontier, we’re all in a great mystery — incredibly mysterious. Each one possesses exactly what each one is working out, and what each one works out relates to their particular set of circumstances of any one day, or any one place around the world. - View Quote Details on I never try to tell anybody else what to do,…
Up to the twentieth century, “reality” was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. 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 Details on Up to the twentieth century, “reality” was everything humans could…
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs. - View Quote Details on One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be…
We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected — like it or not — ‘life is but a dream.’ - View Quote Details on We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena…
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom? - View Quote Details on It is not for me to change you. The question…
In spite of all humans’ innate interest in the interrelatedness of all experience, long ago these world-power-structure builders learned to shunt all the bright intellectuals and the physically creative into specialist careers. The powerful reserved for themselves the far easier, because innate, comprehensive functioning. All one needs to do is to discover how self-perpetuating is this disease of specialization is to witness the inter-departmental battling for educational funds and the concomitant jealous guarding of the various specializations assigned to a department’s salaried experts on each subject in any university. - View Quote Details on In spite of all humans’ innate interest in the interrelatedness…
The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. - View Quote Details on The nearest each of us can come to God is…
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. This is a powerful group of paired concepts generated by the complementarity of conceptuality. - View Quote Details on The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The…
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. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being. - View Quote Details on Synergy is the only word in our language that means…
This book is written with the conviction that there are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem… You and I didn’t design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe. - View Quote Details on This book is written with the conviction that there are…