Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERTombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Truth is a tendency.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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