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
children genius
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
twelve three care
We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.
integrity political humanity
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
war support essentials
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
names pyramids history
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
men important doe
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is "man-made", ergo artificial. But what one learns in chemistry is that Nature wrote all the rules of structuring; man does not invent chemical structuring rules; he only discovers the rules. All the chemist can do is find out what Nature permits, and any substances that are thus developed or discovered are inherently natural. It is very important to remember that.
technology pollution resources
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
mistake feet firsts
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
reality levels orderliness
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.
wealth true-wealth controlled
Controlled time is our true wealth.
politics economy liberalism
Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
men high-standards politics
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
children nice moon
Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn't right." But the child is right! The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.
light people ships
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.