Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERMost of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
-
-
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Don’t fight forces, use them.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER






