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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  • Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • Sum-totally, we find that the physical constituent of wealth-energy-cannot decrease and that the metaphysical constituent-know-how-can only increase. This is to say that everytime we use our wealth it increases.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken seperately.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • The courage to cooperate or initiate are based entirely on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as the divine mind within you tells you the truth is. It really does require a courage and a self-disciplining to go along with that truth.
    Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. This is a powerful group of paired concepts generated by the complementarity of conceptuality.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
    Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • 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.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
    Critical Path (1981)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • This book is written with the conviction that there are no 'good' or 'bad' people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem... You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.
    Critical Path (1981)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • Those whom God hath joined together let no one put asunder. To Anne Hewlett Fuller on this, our 63rd Wedding Anniversary and my 85 Birthday---July 12, 1980
    Critical Path (1981)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • Topology provides the synergetic means of ascertaining the values of any system of experiences. Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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  • Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
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  • War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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