Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERParents 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.
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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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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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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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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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