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
errors progressive truth-is
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
butterfly forever able
One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.
abstract relativity
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
notion earning-a-living drudgery
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
effectiveness strive greater
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
peace fate humanity
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.
wealth true-wealth controlled
Controlled time is our true wealth.
adequate care action
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
order democracy world
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
love together radiation
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that love is what I'd call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
spirit life-is
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
children choices spontaneous
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
nature space eight
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
choices psychology desire
Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.