R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

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

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

R. Buckminster Fuller

God is a verb, not a noun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Man knows so much and does so little.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is metaphysical gravity.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

Truth is a tendency.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

R. Buckminster Fuller