There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERI just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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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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