One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Truth is a tendency.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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