I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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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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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Truth is a tendency.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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