My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
BUCKMINSTER FULLEROne in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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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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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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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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