Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERNow there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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