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
fighting reality people
You never change people by fighting their existing reality.
environment turns including
Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me.
children choices spontaneous
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
two want making-money
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
moving water wave
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
two office half
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.
humans affected universe
Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.
creativity outcomes unexpected
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.
communication humanity understanding
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
education lost-love divorce
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
mistake ignorance greed
Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.
thinking giving people
You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
beauty beautiful niece
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
reality perception facts
Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).