One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERHumanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Truth is a tendency.
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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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Tension is the great integrity.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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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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