The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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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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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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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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