Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERA proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Truth is a tendency.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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