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
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.
sports children mistake
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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 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.
education mistake school
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
mistake spectacular
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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.
mistake decision humanity
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
sports mistake reason
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
mistake smarter
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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.