Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERRight now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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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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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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