435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is born a genius.

The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule...