There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERPeople should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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