R. Buckminster Fuller

Quotes

• “Most importantly we have learned that from here on it is success for all or none, for it is experimentally proven by phy...”
• “I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I...”
• “We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole ...”
• “Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch...”
• “Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circ...”
• “If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use...”
• “When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beau...”
• “The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and wor...”
• “When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I...”
• “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of t...”
• “If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOUL...”
• “Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their ...”
• “Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have wo...”
• “Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”
• “The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it.”
• “I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.”
• “How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.”
• “Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.”
• “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
• “I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”
• “Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
• “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
• “Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.”
• “We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
• “I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.”
• “The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
• “Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”
• “The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended”
• “War is the ultimate tool of politics.”
• “Man knows so much and does so little.”
• “Either war is obsolete, or men are.”
• “God is a verb not a noun.”
• “God is a verb, not a noun.”
• “Truth is a tendency.”
• “Dare to be naive.”