List of quotes from R. Buckminster Fuller
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
by R. Buckminster Fuller
"Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking."
by Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth R. Buckminster Fuller
"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."
by Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth R. Buckminster Fuller
"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."
by Interview R. Buckminster Fuller
"A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries...." by R. Buckminster Fuller