Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERA designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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