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
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.
universe
You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve.
butterfly forever able
One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.
gold silver gold-and-silver
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.