R. Buckminster Fuller

“Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.”

“I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about.”

“If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.”

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

“We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.”

“Tension is the great integrity.”

“Truth is a tendency.”

“One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.”

“You can never learn less, you can only learn more.”

“Either war is obsolete, or men are.”

“People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.”

“Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.”

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

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

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

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

“By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.”

“Love is metaphysical gravity.”

“God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.”

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