Man knows so much and does so little.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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