Quotes By R. Buckminster Fuller

Tension is the great integrity.

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

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

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

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.

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.

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

Truth is a tendency.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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

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.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

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.

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

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

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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.

God is a verb, not a noun.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

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

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

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

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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

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