R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller - New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
Either war is obsolete or men are.

I think I am a verb.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Dare to be naive.
R. Buckminster Fuller - Interview, April 30, 1978
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller - Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment

God is a verb.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries....
R. Buckminster Fuller - Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller - Playboy Interview - February 1972
Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.

I am the only guinea pig I have.

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: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

- R. Buckminster Fuller