Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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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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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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