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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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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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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