Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERHere is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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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