R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer and inventor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth12 July 1895
CountryUnited States of America
R. Buckminster Fuller quotes about
life letting-go should
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
war support essentials
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
integrity tension spectacular
Tension is the great integrity.
ninety-nine humanity politics
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
goal support greek
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied; nevertheless, because all elements of a synergetic system support one another, they also support the whole.
technology pollution resources
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
opportunity dictator invention
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
slavery fancy facts
Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
giving mind special
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
children moving home
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.
needs relevant wells
I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
war discord turns
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
humans affected universe
Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.
children enormous competence
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.