Tension is the great integrity.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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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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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Truth is a tendency.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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