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) -
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) -
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 -
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) -
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) -
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Don't fight forces, use them.
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