"[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's still going. He was like a fireplug."

-- Paul Laffoley

#People Quotes #Buckminster Fuller Quotes #Four Quotes

“I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about the beauty of how we come to know things in biology. Biologists make predictions, then they go out into the field or the lab to see if their predictions hold up. When hundreds of predictions of this sort are fulfilled, a theory reaches the point where it becomes certain, at least on a broad level. And that is where we are with evolution.”
“Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.”
“When you look at that debate stage, Mitt Romney could have dominated it maybe.”
“Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.”

Source : 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 32.
“To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.”

Source : Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
“I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate my psycheâ€”but maybe a little less each year....There are times when I can feel the spell breaking in my mindâ€¦.There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.”
“Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly.”

Source : Joyce Brothers (1985). “What Evry Wom Know Men”, Ballantine Books
“What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?”

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