R. Buckminster Fuller
38 quotes
Biography
"Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern."
"Love is metaphysical gravity."
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
"...primarily the individual is going to study at home."
"We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school."
"I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries."
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."
"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."
"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."
"Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking."
"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."
"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."
"Either war is obsolete, or men are."
"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value."
"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."
"War is the ultimate tool of politics."
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented."
"Truth is a tendency."
"Either war is obsolete, or men are."
"War is the ultimate tool of politics."
"Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience."
"Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked"
"If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?"
"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them."