Buckminster Fuller Quotes

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Life is the spirit incarnate in time.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process. Industry paces economics. It changes the tools, a great ecological change. And in that manner we come finally to everyday life. The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment. To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.

God, to me, it seems proper or improper.

on first priority in order to reach the second derivative — full realization for all individuals