Buckminster Fuller quotes

Buckminster Fuller, also known as Bucky, was a visionary architect, inventor, and futurist who popularized the concept of sustainability and environmental consciousness in design. His most famous invention, the geodesic dome, revolutionized the way we think about architecture and construction. Fuller's innovative ideas continue to inspire architects, designers, and environmentalists around the world. His influence can be seen in modern sustainable design practices and green technologies. Learn more about Buckminster Fuller and his groundbreaking work by exploring his books, lectures, and designs. Join the global movement to create a more sustainable future inspired by Bucky Fuller's visionary ideas.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

- Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

- Buckminster Fuller

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

- Buckminster Fuller

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

- Buckminster Fuller

The primary purpose for government is to be a vehicle for the rich to get their hands into our pockets.

- Buckminster Fuller

The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun.

- Buckminster Fuller

The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it’s a different kind of life.

- Buckminster Fuller

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is quite staggering.

- Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

- Buckminster Fuller

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

- Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

- Buckminster Fuller

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.

- Buckminster Fuller

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

- Buckminster Fuller

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do – how would I be? What would I do?

- Buckminster Fuller

I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

- Buckminster Fuller

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing – after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked.

- Buckminster Fuller

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

- Buckminster Fuller

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

- Buckminster Fuller

Either war is obsolete or men are.

- Buckminster Fuller

What can I do? I'm just a little guy.

- Buckminster Fuller

In order to change an existing paradigm, you do not struggle to change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

- Buckminster Fuller

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

- Buckminster Fuller

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

- Buckminster Fuller