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R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes | Quotes said by R. Buckminster Fuller

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #1

    ...primarily the individual is going to study at home.


  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #2

    A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #3

    Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #4

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

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #5

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

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #6

    Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #7

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

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #8

    God is a verb, not a noun.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #9

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

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #10

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

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #11

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

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #12

    I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #13

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

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #14

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

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #15

    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.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #16

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

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #17

    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?

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #18

    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.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #19

    Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #20

    It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #21

    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.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #22

    Love is metaphysical gravity.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #23

    Man knows so much and does so little.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #24

    Most importantly we have learned that from here on it is success for all or none, for it is experimentally proven by physics that unity is plural and at minimum two - the complementary but not mirror-imaged proton and neutron. You and I are inherently different and complimentary. Together we average as zero - that is, as eternity.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #25

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

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #26

    Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #27

    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.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #28

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

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #29

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

  • R. Buckminster Fuller Quote #30

    Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab.
    It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.
    So I said, call me Trimtab.

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