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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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