My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERMan knows so much and does so little.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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