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Date of Birth
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12-July-1895
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Place of Birth
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Milton
(Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Bucky Fuller, R. Buckminster Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Bucky
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Profession
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Inventor, Author, Visionary, Industrial designer, Architect, Poet, Designer, Artist, Engineer, Scientist
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Quotes
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- Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
- Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
- 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.
- I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
- Our power is in our ability to decide.
- God is a verb.
- You can't learn less.
- Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
- We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
- We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
- Controlled time is our true wealth.
- Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
- There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
- Don't fight forces, use them.
- 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.
- If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
- Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
- The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
- Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
- Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
- You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
- Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
- Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
- Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
- Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
- Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
- Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
- A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.
Buckminster Fuller was the second president of Mensa from 1974 to 1983.
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