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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERGod, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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