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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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