Top 33 R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes



…primarily the individual is going to study at home.

 

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

 

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

 

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

 

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.

 

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

 

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.

 

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

 

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life.

 

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

 

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.

 

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

 

The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn’t come with it.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

 

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