American - Inventor | July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983
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
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Don't fight forces, use them.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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