R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
...primarily the individual is going to study at home.
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
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.
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.
The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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 WOULD I DO?
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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 of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.