The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: space earth instructions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from R. Buckminster Fuller There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: nothing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: space universe earth directions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: virtue beauty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: invention need ingenuity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: nothing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: space universe earth directions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: virtue beauty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: invention need ingenuity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “earth” Now I see the secret of making the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. —Walt Whitman More about this quote Tags: freedom earth sleep air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Independence? That's a middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: soul independence earth interdependence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. —Jewish Proverb More about this quote Tags: God people earth windows Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: earth heaven Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: science earth tools brains Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Now I see the secret of making the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. —Walt Whitman More about this quote Tags: freedom earth sleep air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Independence? That's a middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: soul independence earth interdependence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. —Jewish Proverb More about this quote Tags: God people earth windows Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: earth heaven Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: science earth tools brains Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email