Quotes by Buckminster Fuller

“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”

“War is the ultimate tool of politics.”

“Love is metaphysical gravity.”

“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.”

“Man knows so much and does so little.”

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

“God is a verb, not a noun.”

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

“Truth is a tendency.”

“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.”

“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.”