The opposite of nature is impossible." - Meaning and context.">
Public lecture at Columbia University (Spring 1965), quoted in "Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud" at PBS (12 December 2001)

The opposite of nature is impossible.

— Buckminster Fuller

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The opposite of nature is impossible." in the context of "Public lecture at Columbia University (Spring 1965), quoted in "Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud" at PBS (12 December 2001)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Buckminster Fuller

About Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster Fuller (12 July 1895 – 1 July 1983) was an American philosopher, systems theorist, architect, and inventor, known to many of his friends and fans as "Bucky" Fuller. He created and popularized the terms "Spaceship Earth", "ephemeralization", and "synergetics", and developed numerous inventions, the most famous of which is the geodesic dome.