R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes - Page 11

Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me.

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

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.

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

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.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I look for what needs to be done

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Everyone is born a genius.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would I be? What would I do? We may now care for each Earthian individual at a sustainable billionaire's level of affluence while living exclusively on less than 1 percent of our planet's daily energy income from our cosmically designed nuclear reactor, the Sun, optimally located 92 million safe miles away from us.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

Never show unfinished work.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.

God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .

...primarily the individual is going to study at home.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.

...doing more with less.

The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.