I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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