435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me.

Everything we see is inside our own heads.

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.

I find man utterly unaware of what his wealth is or his fundamental capability is. He says time and again, "We can't afford it." For instance, we are saying now that we can't afford to do anything about pollution but after the costs of not doing something about pollution have multiplied many fold beyond what it would cost to correct it now, we will spend many fold what it would cost us now to correct it.

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.