Quotes from R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

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

Love is metaphysical gravity.

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

Here is God's purpose — for God, to me it seems, is a verb — not a noun, proper or improper...

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

I am the only guinea pig I have.

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

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

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.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

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

Don't fight forces; use them.

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.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

For at least two million years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated Spaceship Earth.

A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries....

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

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

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.