R. Buckminster Fuller
architect, inventor, writer, diarist, university teacher, scientist, poet, artist, visual artist, engineer, philosopher, designer, mathematician
Read on Wikipedia1895 – 1983
All Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller
“Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab.”
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
“God is a verb, not a noun.”
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
“Man knows so much and does so little.”
“I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.”
“Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.”
“Love is metaphysical gravity.”
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
“I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.”
“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”