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
military political humanity
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
mind reflexes antithesis
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
choices oblivion utopia
The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.
law opinion sometimes
Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
littles realizing knows
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
children new-relationship technology
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
errors progressive truth-is
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
tools fool stills
A fool with a tool still remains a fool.
unfinished-work unfinished shows
Never show unfinished work.
love-is metaphysical gravity
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
jobs home people
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
sky clouds people
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
environment turns including
Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me.
differences brain mind
The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment.