R. Buckminster Fuller

“Either war is obsolete, or men are.”

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

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.”

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

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

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

“War is the ultimate tool of politics.”

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

“Truth is a tendency.”