The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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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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Tension is the great integrity.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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