R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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.
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Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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Truth is a tendency.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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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.