Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERTension is the great integrity.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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