Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERFaith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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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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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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