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

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

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth—an instruction book didn't come with it.

—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

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

—R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is metaphysical gravity.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

—Vernon Howard

People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don't need help.

—Glennon Doyle Melton in Warrior

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

—Philip Guston

All religions begin with the cry "Help.

—William James

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

—Unknown