There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe 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.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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