The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Truth is a tendency.
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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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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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Each one of us could make the difference.
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