I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERTension is the great integrity.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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