My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
BUCKMINSTER FULLEREveryone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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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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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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