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
order years people
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
moon men years
For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
integrity support gathering
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
men environment he-man
Don't change the man. Change his environment.
sports men long
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
order priorities design
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
order important special
The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.
children genius
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
twelve three care
We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.
integrity political humanity
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
war support essentials
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
names pyramids history
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
men important doe
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is "man-made", ergo artificial. But what one learns in chemistry is that Nature wrote all the rules of structuring; man does not invent chemical structuring rules; he only discovers the rules. All the chemist can do is find out what Nature permits, and any substances that are thus developed or discovered are inherently natural. It is very important to remember that.
technology pollution resources
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.