Quotes By R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

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.

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

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

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

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.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Man knows so much and does so little.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Tension is the great integrity.

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

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

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

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.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

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

Truth is a tendency.

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