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

  • 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.
  • No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
  • Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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  • How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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  • Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
    Grunch of Giants (1983)
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  • Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.... Realistic, comprehensively responsible, omni-system-considerate, unselfish thinking on the part of humans does absolutely affect human destiny.
    Critical Path (1981)
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  • I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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  • I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.
    Grunch of Giants (1983)
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  • I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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  • I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less...
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  • I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity...
    Grunch of Giants (1983)
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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.