Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

R. Buckminster Fuller's insights on:

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.
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On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things
Truth is a tendency.
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Truth is a tendency.
Here is God's purpose - for 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.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad – or as positive and negative – are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
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What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad – or as positive and negative – are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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