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
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mistake feet firsts
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
reality levels orderliness
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.
wealth true-wealth controlled
Controlled time is our true wealth.
politics economy liberalism
Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
men high-standards politics
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
children nice moon
Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn't right." But the child is right! The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.
light people ships
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
nature book reading
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
successful men humanity
Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
fate men leader
If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
pain educational organization
Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
design tools politics
Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
two making-money make-sense
You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.
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.