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
past thinking law
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
problem
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
unique perfect giving
Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony.
love life valentines-day
Love is metaphysical gravity.
mother people genius
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
genius human-nature born
Everyone is born a genius.
jobs numbers politics
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
earth spaceships passengers
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
book reading humanity
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
beauty creativity thinking
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
people environment ifs
If you change the environment, you change the people.
inspirational-life trying consistent
Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
ignorance energy crisis
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
opposites impossible
The opposite of nature is impossible.