Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERA proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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 look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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