Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

“We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief...”

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

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

“...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.”

“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.”

“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 ...”

“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.”

“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thingafter theyve 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?”

“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.”

“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 g...”

“The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended”

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

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

“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 mi...”

“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.”