R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.

What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

The universe doesn't allow perfection.

Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

Science is the poetry of reality.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

There is nothing in the universe but matter.

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

Nature itself cannot err

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

The greatest mystery of all is reality.

There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.

And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon the observer of the universe.

Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?

There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.