Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERCorollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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 can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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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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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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