Quotes from R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Love is metaphysical gravity.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
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
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
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
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
—R. Buckminster Fuller