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
errors progressive truth-is
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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.
mistake errors assumption
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
errors progressive truth-is
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
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War is obsolete.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.
american-inventor
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
christian god noun proper
God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.
art approach
The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art.
integrity fate humanity
On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate