Quote

I live on Earth at 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, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
Architect
Artist
Designer
Diarist
Engineer
Inventor
Mathematician
Philosopher
Poet
Scientist
University Teacher
Visual Artist
Writer
Milton
Massachusetts
Bucky Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller
R Buckminster Fuller
Earth
Spectacular
Live
Categories
Noun
Thing
Function
Verb
Seem
Nouns
Present
Integral
Universe
Verbs
Process
Evolutionary
Seems
Category

More quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

Image
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
...primarily the individual is going to study at home.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller