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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAbove all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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I look for what needs to be done
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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