Quotes by Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

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

Alive from: 1895-1983

Category: Science | Writers (Contemporary)

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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.
  Source: 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.
  Source: 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.
  Source: 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?
  Source: 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.
  Source: Cosmography (1992)

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  Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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  Don't fight forces, use them.