Buckminster Fuller Quotes

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

Don't change the man. Change his environment.

Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.

Never show unfinished work.

The impossible happens.

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve.

All sports are time control demonstrations.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.

I look for what needs to be done

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.