Man knows so much and does so little.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERSometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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