Quotes from R. Buckminster Fuller

With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe.

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

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.

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.

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

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

Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

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

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

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.

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

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

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.

Tension is the great integrity.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

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.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

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

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.