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
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.
believe men blind-spots
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.
children new-relationship technology
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
years air water
By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."
art looks done
I look for what needs to be done
race humanity finals
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe
men numbers environment
I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.
notion earning-a-living drudgery
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
mean men leader
U.S. labor leaders will realize that automation can multiply man's wealth far more rapidly than it is multiplying at present and that automation will leave all men free to search and research... Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
faith believe thinking
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
technology humanity reason
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
war moving gun
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.