R. Buckminster Fuller

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

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Unity is plural and, at minimum, two.

If the 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?

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

Dare to be naive.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

Call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

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