Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERNow there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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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 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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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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