R Buckminster Fuller quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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

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

Truth is a tendency.

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

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Man knows so much and does so little.

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

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.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

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

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

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.