Don’t fight forces, use them.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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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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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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