Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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