Buckminster Fuller Quotes
American philosopher, architect, and inventor.
(1895 - 1983)
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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A house is a machine for living.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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All sports are time control demonstrations...
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Dare to be naive.
[Risks]
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Don't fight forces, use them.
[Advice]
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
[War]
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
[God]
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
[Technology]
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Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
[Technology]
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