Don't fight forces, use them.
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Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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.
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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.
God is a verb, not a noun.
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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.
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
Love is metaphysical gravity.
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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