Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERHow often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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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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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.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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