Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERGold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Truth is a tendency.
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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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