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R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
R. Buckminster Fuller
American
Inventor
Born:
Jul 12
,
1895
Died:
Jul 1
,
1983
Does
God
Me
Politics
Think
You
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature
You
Nothing
Tells
Caterpillar
Going
Butterfly
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology
Humanity
Wrong
Wrong Reasons
Acquiring
Reasons
Right
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology
Man
Wait
Invent
Invented
Until
Around
Just
Then
Needing
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity
Everything
Essence
Successful
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Future
Architects
Victims
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller
You
Ninety-Nine
Ninety-Nine Percent
Percent
Invisible
Untouchable
Who
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.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Fate
Space
Everybody
Our
Unless
Earth
See
Able
Nobody
Longer
Operate
Nor
Going
Common
Spaceship
Much
Successfully
Whole
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Will
Devil
Those
Degrees
Brought
Toys
His
Who
Play
Sword
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Today
Youth
Rest
Earning
Recognizing
Thousand
Ten
Absolutely
Supporting
Make
Nonsense
Wage
Breakthrough
Capable
Us
Right
Technological
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Experience
Genius
Brainy
Tremendous
Bundle
Just
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Genius
Living
Everyone
Born
Process
Them
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.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Great
Become
National
Ability
Great Nations
Scenery
Remain
Vastly
Had
Simply
Individuals
Invisible
Powerful
Operating
Because
Effectively
Ambitious
Behind
Nations
Fronts
While
Who
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.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity
Humanity
Touch
Could
Through
Absolutely
Make
Does
Go
Difference
Us
Each
Each One
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics
Value
Nothing
Resources
Harvesting
Allow
Because
Been
Pollution
Them
Ignorant
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Mechanic
Synthesis
Evolutionary
Objective
Emerging
Inventor
Economist
Artist
Strategist
Designer
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Faith
Better
Thinking
Else
Someone
Does
Than
Much
Belief
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics
Gun
Pick
Always
End
Up
Move
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature
Depend
Experiment
Only
Make
Does
Very
Trying
Succeed
Us
Hard
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.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Beautiful
Problem
Finished
Beauty
Think
Solution
About
Never
Wrong
Know
Am
Working
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller
You
Mistake
Advances
Uncover
Most
Were
Get
Rid
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller
People
Think
Way
Out
Terms
Accept
Fresh
Doing
Just
Conventional
Conventional Way
Should
Things
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.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Time
People
Lost
Paralyzed
Faculties
Stuffed
Most
Overloaded
Educational
Mature
Happens
Process
Capabilities
Innate
By The Time
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller
You
Sometimes
Master
Blind
Deaf
Servant
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
R. Buckminster Fuller
You
More
Only
Never
Learn
Less
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics
War
Tool
Ultimate
God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
God
Verb
Noun
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