435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

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.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.