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?

— R. 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.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is metaphysical gravity.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Man knows so much and does so little.

— R. Buckminster Fuller