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 More about this quote Tags: reality simplicity universe complexity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is metaphysical gravity. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: love gravity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: beauty logic problems problem solving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: space earth instructions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: invention need ingenuity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: virtue beauty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: space universe earth directions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: nothing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email