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
trying principles copies
I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.
nature trying hardship
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
inspirational-life trying consistent
Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
thinking trying special
I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
thinking two trying
. . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else's opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth.
struggle order trying
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
integrity differences humanity
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
peace war fighting
War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way...
christian god noun proper
God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.
american-inventor proper purpose verb
Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
integrity fate humanity
On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate
brain special cases
Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.
money making-money make-sense
You either make sense or you make money.
inexplicable obvious mystical
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.