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
humanity vision world
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
philosophy talking world
You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
sad men littles
Man knows so much and does so little.
fighting use-it-or-lose-it fighter
Don't fight forces, use them.
humanity extinction doe
All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly -right now.
humanity mind needs
With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe.
inspirational yesterday humanity
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
artist today philosopher
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
thinking two trying
. . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else's opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth.
adequate care action
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
inspirational change wisdom
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
men experiments
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
life letting-go should
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
life motivational positive
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.