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
consciousness senses
You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.
learning
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
children men design
If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically.
integrity humans human-beings
God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.
dog tails politician
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
unique men humanity
One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
war selfishness unnecessary
Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.
zero vectors circus
The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.
love self understanding
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
humanity tasks social-behavior
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
education strong men
Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
progress reason stage
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
balance lines physics
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
pollution used resources
Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.