Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor
Lived from: 1895 - 1983
Category: Scientists Country: 
United States
Born: 12 july 1895 Died: 1 july 1983
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I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
Grunch of Giants (1983)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Integrity of the individual is what we're being judged for and if we are not passing that examination, we don't really have the guts, we'll blow ourselves up. It will be all over. I think it's all the difference in the world.
Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
Buckminster Fuller: starting with the universe (2008)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate comprehensivity. Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)― Richard Buckminster Fuller -
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
As quoted in Synergetics Dictionary : The Mind of Buckminster Fuller (1986)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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