Man knows so much and does so little.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERNow there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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 just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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