Architect quotes
#10177 Buckminster Fuller
I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, anprocess — an integral function of the .
#10178 Buckminster Fuller
The true business ofshould be to go back toandabout whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
#10181 Buckminster Fuller
is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
#10182 Buckminster Fuller
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
#10183 Buckminster Fuller
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths.is a .
#10185 Buckminster Fuller
, to me, it seems is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
#10186 Buckminster Fuller
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative — full realization for all individuals
#10189 Buckminster Fuller
Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
#10190 Buckminster Fuller
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done — that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
#10191 Buckminster Fuller
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
#10192 Buckminster Fuller
I live onat present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, anprocess — an integral function of the .
#10193 Buckminster Fuller
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. But if we got onto a planning planning basis, the government could trap pollutants in the stacks and spillages and get back more money than this would cost out of the stockpiled chemistries they'd be collecting. gets cross with me when I talk like this because she says people are doing some very important things because they're worried and excited and I'm going to make them relax and stop doing those things. But we're dealing with something much bigger than we're accustomed to understanding, we're on a very large course indeed. You speak of racism, for example, and I tell you that there's no such thing as race. The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy.
#10194 Buckminster Fuller
I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less... ()
#10195 Buckminster Fuller
It seems to demonstrate that periods of industrial activity in technical syntheses of principles, data, free energy and energy as "matter," find highest employment by the fear-amassed credits of warfare. Therefore the assumption approaches fact that war promotes the major technical advances of civilization... What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science. (1947)
#10196 Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing to teach youris that thedoes not rise and set. It is thethat revolves around the sun...
#10198 Buckminster Fuller
Up to the Twentieth Century,was everythingcould touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.
#10199 Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing to teach your children is that thedoes not rise and set. It is thethat revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
#10203 Buckminster Fuller
are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
#10204 Buckminster Fuller
Theconsists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
#10206 Buckminster Fuller
All sports are time control demonstrations...
#10208 Buckminster Fuller
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneousof , similar to the , will be made possible. Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc. Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.
#10209 Buckminster Fuller
is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the . Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate "comprehensivity." Coping with the totality of Spaceshipandis ahead for all of us.
#10211 Buckminster Fuller
You may very appropriately want to ask me how we are going to resolve the ever-acceleratingly dangerous impasse of world-opposed politicians and ideological dogmas. I answer, it will be resolved by the .
#10212 Buckminster Fuller
Take the initiative. Go to , and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Anyin such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergeticthatis employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made . They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectualgoverning .
#10213 Buckminster Fuller
Ourdeal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only ourare able to discover the generalizedoperating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
#10214 Buckminster Fuller
Of course, ourare 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.
#10215 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.
#10216 Buckminster Fuller
As a consequence of the slavish "categoryitis" the scientifically illogical, and as we shall see, often meaningless questions "Where do you live?" "What are you?" "What religion?" "What race?" "What nationality?" are all thought of today as logical questions. By the twenty-first century it either will have become evident to humanity that these questions are absurd and anti-evolutionary or men will no longer be living on Earth.
#10217 Buckminster Fuller
There's a major pattern ofin universe wherein the very large events, earthquakes, and so forth, occur in any one area of universe very much less frequently than do the small energy events. Around the Earth insects occur more often than do earthquakes. In the patterning of total evolutionary events, there comes a time, once in a while, amongst the myriad of low energy events, when a large energy event transpires and is so disturbing that with their general adaptability lost, the ultra-specialized creatures perish.
#10218 Buckminster Fuller
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the . 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.
#10219 Buckminster Fuller
consists of many great revolutionary events taking place quite independently of man's consciously attempting to bring them about. Man is very vain; he likes to feel that he is responsible for all the favorable things that happen, and he is innocent of all the unfavorable happenings. But all the larger evolutionary patternings seeming favorable or unfavorable to man's conditioned reflexing are transpiring transcendentally to any of man's conscious planning or contriving.
#10220 Buckminster Fuller
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.
#10221 Buckminster Fuller
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
#10222 Buckminster Fuller
Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of wholeunpredicted 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 theof a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.
#10224 Buckminster Fuller
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.
#10225 Buckminster Fuller
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.
#10226 Buckminster Fuller
, , and other leading scientists said, "We're going to have to reassess and redefine the physical universe." — They defined the physical universe as "an aggregate of non-simultaneous and only partially overlapping transformation events."
#10227 Buckminster Fuller
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.
#10228 Buckminster Fuller
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.
#10229 Buckminster Fuller
The difference betweenandis that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment. Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
#10230 Buckminster Fuller
Synergy is the only word in our language which identifies the meaning for which it stands. Since the word is unknown to the average public, as I have already pointed out, it is not at all surprising that synergy has not been included in the economic accounting of our wealth transactions or in assessing our common wealth capabilities.
#10232 Buckminster Fuller
While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all ofin for a happy landing.
#10234 Buckminster Fuller
is our organized capability to cope effectively with the environment in sustaining our healthy regeneration and decreasing both the physical and metaphysical restrictions of the forward days of our lives.
#10235 Buckminster Fuller
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.