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
errors progressive truth-is
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
peace war tools
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
...doing more with less.
horse light average
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.
ideas practice matter
Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.
clothes embroidery suits
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
Everything we see is inside our own heads.
art law energy
Here is God's purpose - For God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the articulation not the art, objective or subjective; is loving, not the abstraction "love" commanded or entreated; is knowledge dynamic, not legislative code, not proclamation law, not academic dogma, not ecclesiastic canon. Yes, God is a verb, the most active, connoting the vast harmonic reordering of the universe from unleashed chaos of energy.
men cost wealth
I find man utterly unaware of what his wealth is or his fundamental capability is. He says time and again, "We can't afford it." For instance, we are saying now that we can't afford to do anything about pollution but after the costs of not doing something about pollution have multiplied many fold beyond what it would cost to correct it now, we will spend many fold what it would cost us now to correct it.
inspirational motivational animal
Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
school study obvious
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.
needs relevant wells
I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
racism extinction pollution
Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.
thinking environment initiative
The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.