Quotes By R. Buckminster Fuller

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.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

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

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

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