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 FULLERThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Truth is a tendency.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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