There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERA designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Don’t fight forces, use 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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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