Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERPeople should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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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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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Truth is a tendency.
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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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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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