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 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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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