There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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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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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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