Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Buckminster Fuller on came
Buckminster Fuller53 quotes“Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.”
Filed under
More from Buckminster Fuller
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller 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.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller 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.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller God is a verb, not a noun.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller War is the ultimate tool of politics.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller
Original quotes
From our community writers
Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski
Meet the writers
More on came
And what I love is that it’s such a creative process, with a bunch of people, and I wanted that more, which is how the acting thing came about.
Agyness DeynAgyness Deyn When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet.
Agnes MacphailAgnes Macphail They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of “science”… We would not (On ne saurait”, Fr.) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir I came to explore the wreck.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said no to that.
Adrian HodgesAdrian Hodges You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai Stevenson IIAdlai Stevenson II To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me The memory of your name.
Violet NicolsonViolet Nicolson When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.
Adam ShankmanAdam Shankman