R. Buckminster Fuller

God is a verb, not a noun.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Man knows so much and does so little.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is a metaphysical gravity.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is metaphysical gravity.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Truth is a tendency.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Television is the third parent.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Tension is the great integrity.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You never change people by fighting their existing reality.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't change the man. Change his environment.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Some of us are just less damaged than others.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e. that it is…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

. . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me…

— R. Buckminster Fuller