Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

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The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

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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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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

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Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab. It's a miniature rudder. ...

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Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are...

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The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended

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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

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Most importantly we have learned that from here on it is success for all or none, for it is experimentally proven by physics that "unity is plural and at minimum two" - the complementary but not mirror-imaged proton and neutron. You and I are inheren...

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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 is a verb, not a noun.

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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

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Here is God's purpose - for 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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

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Man knows so much and does so little.

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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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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

R. Buckminster Fuller