Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERHumanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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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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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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