Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhen 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.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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