There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.Planetary Planning, The American Scholar, 1970
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R. Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor. He is best known for popularizing the geodesic dome, a spherical structure made up of triangular elements, and for his innovative ideas on sustainability and design efficiency, such as his concept of "Spaceship Earth." Fuller was a renowned futurist whose work had a profound impact on architecture and environmental science.
1895–1983·lived 87 years
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.Planetary Planning, The American Scholar, 1970
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1969
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1969
Love is metaphysical gravity.No More Secondhand God, p. 23, 1963
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.No More Secondhand God, p. 45, 1963
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.Ideas and Integrities, 1963
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1969
That’s all 9 quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller.