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~ Buckminster Fuller Quotes ~
« on: January 31, 2014, 11:05:23 AM »
Buckminster Fuller Quotes


An American engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.

Here are some famous quotes by Buckminster Fuller.




God is a verb.

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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2014, 11:06:14 AM »
Don't fight forces; use them.

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« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2014, 11:06:57 AM »
A house is a machine for living.

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« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2014, 11:07:41 AM »
Either war is obsolete or men are.

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« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2014, 11:08:22 AM »
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.

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« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2014, 11:10:33 AM »
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2014, 11:11:28 AM »
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

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« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2014, 11:12:27 AM »
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case the thought is staggering.

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« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2014, 11:13:53 AM »
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

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« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2014, 11:16:15 AM »
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.

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« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2014, 11:19:31 AM »
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about 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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« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2014, 11:20:17 AM »
If I ran a school I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them and then told me what they learned from them.