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
enthusiasm enthusiastic
Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
children years newborn-child
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
life and-love integration
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
circles want steps
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
technology humanity reason
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
motivational wisdom book
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
stress home circles
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
integrity creativity conformity
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
peace planets spectacular
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
play devil toys
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
nouns statistics verbs
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
ideas emergencies enough
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
sports mistake reason
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
life love-is principles
Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.