R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Sharing is having more.

Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

How do we make the world work?

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

Doing more with less.

If you change the environment, you change the people.

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.

Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.

You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?

Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

Love is a metaphysical gravity.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?

All sports are time control demonstrations ...

You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

Life is the spirit incarnate in time.

To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.

In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

You can't learn less.

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.

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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

Never show unfinished work.

The impossible happens.

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

Some of us are just less damaged than others.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

I look for what needs to be done

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

Everything we see is inside our own heads.

Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

Tension is the great integrity.

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.

Truth is a tendency.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Universe to each must be
All that is, including me.
Environment in turn must be
All that is, excepting me.

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art.

You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve.

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.