Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERMost of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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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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