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
space earth sun
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
humanity earth doe
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
book important earth
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
humanity earth information
There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.
earth four boards
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
earth coping spaceships
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
earth spaceships passengers
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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.
american-inventor proper purpose verb
Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
integrity differences humanity
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
peace war fighting
War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way...
came regarding spaceship
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
absolutely capable earning nonsense supporting ten thousand
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
mind
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.