435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.

What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad – or as positive and negative – are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

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

Truth is a tendency.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things