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 FULLERWe 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.
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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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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