R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Dare to be naive.
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God is a verb not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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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 inherently different and complimentary. Together we average as zero - that is, as eternity.
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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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The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy
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The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended
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I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
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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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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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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 Fuller