435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.

It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.

God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.

Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way...

A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.

History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art.