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R. Buckminster Fuller
1895 – 1983 • American • Inventor
49
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 49 quotesMy ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.— R. Buckminster Fuller
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.— R. Buckminster Fuller
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.— R. Buckminster Fuller
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.— R. Buckminster Fuller
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.— R. Buckminster Fuller
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 wage.— R. Buckminster Fuller
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.— R. Buckminster Fuller
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.— R. Buckminster Fuller
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.— R. Buckminster Fuller
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.— R. Buckminster Fuller
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.— R. Buckminster Fuller