Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Truth is a tendency.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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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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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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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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