Buckminster Fuller Quotes

How do we make the world work?

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.

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

God is a verb not a noun.

Dare to be naive.

Truth is a tendency.

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

Don't fight forces use them.

A house is a machine for living.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.

Either war is obsolete or men are.