Quotes by Richard Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster Fuller

American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor

Lived from: 1895 - 1983

Category: Scientists Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 12 july 1895 Died: 1 july 1983

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  • Controlled time is our true wealth.
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  • I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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  • If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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  • Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
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  • There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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  • You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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  • A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
    Your Private Sky: Discourse (2001)
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  • A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201
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  • A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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  • Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
    Critical Path (1981)
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  • By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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  • Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - which is the mostest? which is the leastest? They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
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  • Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
    Cosmography (1992)
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  • Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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  • Don't fight forces, use them.
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  • Every child is born a genius.
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  • Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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  • Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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  • For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
    The Prospect for Humanity, Saturday Review, 29 August 1964
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  • Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Questions and Answers

What are the most famous quotes from Richard Buckminster Fuller?

The two most famous quotes from Richard Buckminster Fuller are:

  • "Controlled time is our true wealth."
  • "I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented."

When did Richard Buckminster Fuller live?

Richard Buckminster Fuller was born in 1895 and died in the year 1983.