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
ignorance responsibility reality
So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.
technology long pace
Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.
realization assumption evolution
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
love self understanding
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
nature space eight
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
men giving reform
... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
giving mind special
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
technology space challenges
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
learning
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
strong-women mind well-known
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
dream night men
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
home study individual
...primarily the individual is going to study at home.
differences brain mind
The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment.
taken humble technology
What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.