R. Buckminster Fuller

"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."

"Love is metaphysical gravity."

"War is the ultimate tool of politics."

"Either war is obsolete, or men are."

"Dare to be naive."

"God is a verb not a noun."

"The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it."

"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."

"Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality."

"The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life."

"The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy"

"The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended"

"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."

"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them."

"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?"

"Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked"

"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."

"We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief. Advancing science has now discovered that all the known cases of biological extinction have been caused by overspecialization, whose concentration of only selected genes sacrifices general adaptability. Thus the specialist’s brief for pinpointing brevity is dubious. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which in turn leads to war."

"Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience."

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."