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
outlaw humans areas
All human advances occur in the outlaw area.
rewards problem difficult
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
hate garden roots
Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
can-do
To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.
children genius born
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
nouns earth verbs
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
learning self world
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
thinking trying special
I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
inspirational mistake errors
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.
creativity apology thinking
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
choices psychology desire
Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.
successful humanity world
Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?
stupid intelligent alternatives
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
motivation inspiration world
The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.