Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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

—R. Buckminster Fuller

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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

—R. Buckminster Fuller

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

—Sydney Smith

The truth hurts, sometimes, I suppose. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be known.

—Trisha Leigh in Summer Ruins

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

—George Burns

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

—Bertrand Russell