Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERMy ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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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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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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Tension is the great integrity.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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