Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. -R. Buckminster Fuller Technology
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. -R. Buckminster Fuller Politics
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. -R. Buckminster Fuller Alone
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. -R. Buckminster Fuller Technology
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. -R. Buckminster Fuller Beauty
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 Nature
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. -R. Buckminster Fuller Space
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. -R. Buckminster Fuller Space
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. -R. Buckminster Fuller Faith
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. -R. Buckminster Fuller Nature
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. -R. Buckminster Fuller Travel
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. -R. Buckminster Fuller Home