#no

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#dualism #fact #female #feminine #fluid

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

#am #beautiful #beauty #finished #i

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. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#bestow #careful #children #concern #doing

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

#allow #because #been #disperse #harvesting

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#designer #economist #emerging #evolutionary #inventor

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

#common #earth #everybody #fate #going

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#improper #me #noun #proper #seems

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#around #comes #i #invent #invented

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#badly #emergence #emergency #enough #ideas

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. ↗